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EMPLOYMENT OFFICE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does employment office mean?
• EMPLOYMENT OFFICE (noun)
The noun EMPLOYMENT OFFICE has 1 sense:
1. an agency that finds people to fill particular jobs or finds jobs for unemployed people
Familiarity information: EMPLOYMENT OFFICE used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
An agency that finds people to fill particular jobs or finds jobs for unemployed people
Classified under:
Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects
Synonyms:
employment agency; employment office
Hypernyms ("employment office" is a kind of...):
agency (a business or organization that provides a particular service, especially the mediation of transactions between two parties)
Context examples
He crossed on the ferry to San Francisco and made his way to an employment office.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
He was a month's rent behind on the typewriter, which he could not pay, having barely enough for the week's board which was due and for the employment office fees.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
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