employment
noun
an act or instance of employing someone or something.
overemployment
-
a word derived from
employment.
Example Sentences
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But some workers have found a way to increase their income without increasing their overall hours through a practice they’re calling overemployment.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 6, 2022
I first heard about overemployment early in the coronavirus pandemic from a neighbor who knew of several software engineers holding two full-time jobs at once.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 6, 2022
Finally, the overemployment phenomenon, like other pandemic-enhanced work trends, stirs up questions about what employers and full-time employees owe each other.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 6, 2022
While the U.S. nursed its unemployment aches, most places in the Common Market labored under the opposite affliction: overemployment.
From Time Magazine Archive
Likewise, because a man is in military uniform does not require that his speech be terse, cold, given to the biting of words and the overemployment of professional jargon.
From The Armed Forces Officer Department of the Army Pamphlet 600-2 by United States. Dept. of Defense
