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re-employment

British

noun

the act or an instance of employing or being employed again

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Workers who lose jobs in fields hit by automation take a month longer to find new jobs and suffer 3% real earning losses after re-employment compared with workers displaced from other fields.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 6, 2026

But over a 16-year career he always found re-employment.

From BBC • Oct. 25, 2022

“By pushing for termination, the district is taking a punitive approach that will deny workers re-employment rights,” said Max Arias, executive director of Local 99 of Service Employees International Union.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 19, 2021

“Our attention is focused on supporting Washingtonians with re-employment and increasing vaccination to ensure our economic recovery continues.”

From Seattle Times • Aug. 12, 2021

Dan Moran had not applied for re-employment when the strike was off, but chose rather to look for work elsewhere, and he had looked long and faithfully, and found no place.

From Snow on the Headlight A Story of the Great Burlington Strike by Warman, Cy

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