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Definition: Employment Agency |
Employment AgencyNoun1. An agency that finds people to fill particular jobs or finds jobs for unemployed people. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Synonym: Employment AgencySynonym: employment office (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Employment Agency |
| English words defined with "employment agency": employment agent ♦ referral. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "employment agency": AGENT-CONTRACT CLERK ♦ contract administrator ♦ EEOC, EMPLOYER RELATIONS REPRESENTATIVE, EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR, SHELTERED WORKSHOP ♦ MANAGER, EMPLOYMENT AGENCY ♦ naval gunfire operations centre ♦ PROBATION-AND-PAROLE OFFICER ♦ referral clerk, REFERRAL CLERK, TEMPORARY HELP AGENCY ♦ staffing clerk. (references) |
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 | Employment agency on Sixth Avenue, New York, New York.Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Jacksonville, Florida. Sign in front of an employment agency.Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Jacksonville, Florida. Sign in front of an employment agency.Credit: Library of Congress. | ||
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Economic History | Korea | Whether seeking to hire local or foreign staff or obtaining consultation and information on the local labor laws, a foreign investor should consult an employment agency in Korea. (references) |
Japan | On-line, Internet based, job seeking and placement services are, however, only in their infancy in Japan--constrained partly by a Ministry of Labor requirement that every employment agency must personally interview each of its clients (this requirement is currently under review). (references) | |
Worker Rights | Philippines | Although the Philippine Overseas Employment Agency has registered and supervised domestic recruiters' practices successfully, the Government often is unable to ensure workers' protection overseas. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
employment agency | 2,587 |
temporary employment agency | 287 |
manpower employment agency | 35 |
temp employment agency | 26 |
international employment agency | 14 |
overseas employment agency | 10 |
government employment agency | 7 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "employment agency"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | zprostředkovatelna práce. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | arbejdsformidlingskontor (registry office). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | verhuurkantoor (registry office), plaatsingsbureau. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | työnvälitystoimisto, paikanvälitystoimisto. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | bureau de placement, agence de placement. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | stellennachweis (employment center). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | γραφείο ευρέσεωσ εργασίασ (employment exchange). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | agenzia che ricerca lavoratori per conto del datore di lavoro. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 口入れ屋 , 周旋業者 (broker, middleman), 周旋屋 (broker). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | しゅうせ"ぎょうしゃ (broker, middleman), しゅうせ"や (broker), くちいれや. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | employmentay agencyay centro de colocação, agência de empregos, agência de emprego (registry office). (various references) компания по найму. (various references) agencia de colocaciones (recruitment agency, registry office). (various references) platsförmedling, arbetsförmedling (employment office, job centre, job placement, jobcentre, placement). (various references) iş bulma kurumu. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-e-e-e-g-l-m-m-n-n-o-p-t-y-y" | |
-5 letters: congealment, emplacement. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)45 6D 70 6C 6F 79 6D 65 6E 74 41 67 65 6E 63 79 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000101 01101101 01110000 01101100 01101111 01111001 01101101 01100101 01101110 01110100 00100000 01000001 01100111 01100101 01101110 01100011 01111001 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)E m p l o y m e n t   A g e n c y |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0045 006D 0070 006C 006F 0079 006D 0065 006E 0074 0041 0067 0065 006E 0063 0079 |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)397982788191797180862357371806991 |
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