employment agency
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employment agency
noun
an agency that helps find jobs for persons seeking employment or assists employers in finding persons to fill positions that are open.
Also called employment bureau.
Origin:
1885–90, Americanism
1885–90, Americanism
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| employment agency | |
| —n | |
| a private firm whose business is placing people in jobs | |
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Employment agency
is always a great word to know.
So is interrobang. Does it mean:
| a gadget; dingus; thingumbob. |
| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |
Example sentences
No employment agency or placement firm can guarantee you a job.
There's his soap powder pyramid scheme, his real estate and employment agency gambits.
The subcontractor obtains personnel from an employment agency.
Thousands of other nurses take temporary work for a daily rate, often through a local, mom-and-pop employment agency.
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