Definition of Employment agency

1. Noun. An agency that finds people to fill particular jobs or finds jobs for unemployed people.

Exact synonyms: Employment Office
Generic synonyms: Agency

Definition of Employment agency

1. Noun. An organisation that matches employers to employees. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Employment Agency

employee savings plan
employee stock ownership plan
employee turnover
employeeless
employees
employer
employer health costs
employers
employes
employest
employeth
employing
employment
employment-at-will
employment agencies
employment agency
employment agent
employment agreement
employment at will
employment contract
employment interview
employment office
employments
employs
emplume
emplumed
emplumes
empluming
emplunge
emplunged

Literary usage of Employment agency

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Unemployed and Public Employment Agencies by Edwin Hardin Sutherland (1914)
"The public employment agency is an institution managed or supported by a public body for the purpose of enabling employers ..."

2. The Boycott in American Trade Unions by Leo Wolman (1916)
"The bureau is directed to collect statistics, to operate a free employment agency, to arbitrate labor disputes, and to enforce child labor laws. Statistics. ..."

3. Think and Act: A Series of Articles Pertaining to Men and Women, Work and Wages by Virginia Penny (1869)
"... LADIES* employment agency, object of such an agency as I suggest is to furnish JL employment to women, and to be the means of opening more occupations, ..."

4. Annual Report of the Commissioner of Labor by New York (State). Dept. of Labor (1915)
"The term " employment agency" means and includes the business of conducting, as owner, agent, manager, contractor, subcontractor or in any other capacity an ..."

5. Report by Industrial Commission of Ohio, Dept. of Investigation and Statistics (1916)
"No person connected with a private employment agency shall send a female or cause her to be sent to a place of bad" repute, house of ill-fame ..."

6. State Administration in Maryland by John Donaldson (1916)
"The bureau is directed to collect statistics, to operate a free employment agency, to arbitrate labor disputes, and to enforce child labor laws. Statistics. ..."

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