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🇪🇸Spanish Source WordCode: ES

empleo

Pronunciation / Transliteration: empleo

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Employment/ɪmˈplɔɪ.mənt/
nounCEFR B1 (Intermediate)Top #850 frequency
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🇪🇸 Example Sentence in Spanish:

"El empleo formal ha aumentado este año."

Comprehensive Definitions & Senses

1 sense
As noun
  1. 1

    The condition of having paid work.

    "The government is trying to create more employment opportunities."
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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

Derived from the Old French 'emploier', meaning to employ or use, which traces back to the Latin 'implicare', meaning to involve or engage. By the late Middle English period, the term evolved specifically to describe the state of having paid work or a job.

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