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employment n. the hiring of a person for compensation. It is important to determine if acts occurred in the "scope of employment" to establish the possible responsibility of the employer to the employee for injuries on the job or to the public for acts of the employee. (See: employee, scope of employment, agency, respondeat superior) EMPLOYMENT. An employment is an office; as, the secretary of the treasury
has a laborious and responsible employment; an agency, as, the employment of
an auctioneer; it signifies also the act by which one is engaged to do
something. 2 Mart. N. S. 672; 2 Harr. Cond. Lo. R. 778.
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