核心畫面
Putting something to use — at root, 'to employ' is to make use of something or someone for a purpose. Employment is that putting-to-use, most often a person being put to work for pay.
可以想成「把……拿來用、派上用場」這個動作。employ 最底層的意思是「動用、運用」某樣東西或某個人去達成目的；e…更多收起
可以想成「把……拿來用、派上用場」這個動作。employ 最底層的意思是「動用、運用」某樣東西或某個人去達成目的；employment 就是這個「派上用場」的狀態。最常見的版本，是「把一個人派去工作、付他薪水」——人被「用」起來了，就是就業／雇用。原始詞典資料6 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
employmentnoun/ɪmˈplɔɪmənt/
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The occupation or work for which one is used, and often paid.
- [I]t is certaine no man sees more of the Navye's Transactions than himselfe [the Clerk of the Acts], and possibly may speak as much to the project if required, or else he is a blockhead, and not fitt for that imployment.
- 2
The act of employing.
- The personnel director handled the whole employment procedure
- 3
The state of being employed.
- The percentage of a country's population in employment used to be called "participation rate".
- […] King Henry [VIII] full fraught all thoſe vvith vvealth and revvards, vvhom he retained in his imployment.
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A purpose, a use.
- This new employment of his time caused no relaxation in his attention to my education.
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An activity to which one devotes time.
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economicssciencesThe number or percentage of people at work.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。