employment agency
an agency that helps find jobs for persons seeking employment or assists employers in finding persons to fill positions that are open.
Origin of employment agency
1- Also called employment bureau.
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How to use employment agency in a sentence
Police say Alayban found the Kenyan woman through an employment agency based in the African nation.
The Princess & the Peon: Saudi Royal’s Slave Labor Charges | Eliza Shapiro, Christine Pelisek | July 12, 2013 | THE DAILY BEASTThe Appointment Bureau is an employment agency, and one of the most extraordinary employment agencies ever organized.
The Women of Tomorrow | William HardThere also came a cook and a housemaid, engaged a month ago from a local employment agency.
I Walked in Arden | Jack CrawfordA special bribe got her from under the nose of some of Pasadena's elite who were besieging the employment agency.
I Walked in Arden | Jack CrawfordFyfe had wired a Vancouver employment agency to send one, the day he took Jim Renfrew down.
Big Timber | Bertrand W. Sinclair
It was a "fake" employment agency with a side line of swindling by means of getting contracts on carbon paper.
Twenty Years a Detective in the Wickedest City in the World | Clifton R. Wooldridge
British Dictionary definitions for employment agency
a private firm whose business is placing people in jobs
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