Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Employment

Employment , noun

1.
The act of employing or using; also, the state of being employed.
2.
That which engages or occupies; that which consumes time or attention; office or post of business; service; as, agricultural employments; mechanical employments; public employments; in the employment of government.
Cares are employments, and without employ The soul is on a rack. — Young