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employment agency

noun

  1. an agency that helps find jobs for persons seeking employment or assists employers in finding persons to fill positions that are open.


employment agency

noun

  1. a private firm whose business is placing people in jobs


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Word History and Origins

Origin of employment agency1

An Americanism dating back to 1885–90

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Example Sentences

Temporary employment agencies are not big enough to fill the gaps.

Police say Alayban found the Kenyan woman through an employment agency based in the African nation.

The Appointment Bureau is an employment agency, and one of the most extraordinary employment agencies ever organized.

There also came a cook and a housemaid, engaged a month ago from a local employment agency.

A special bribe got her from under the nose of some of Pasadena's elite who were besieging the employment agency.

Fyfe had wired a Vancouver employment agency to send one, the day he took Jim Renfrew down.

It was a "fake" employment agency with a side line of swindling by means of getting contracts on carbon paper.

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