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reemployment

reemployment

1 3.8
Getting a job again after being without work
  • noun
  • /ˌriːɪmˈplɔɪmənt/
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  • In a major victory, SITRABI, assisted by the International Union of Foodworkers (IUF), won a single contract for 648 workers who desired reemployment.
  • workers seeking reemployment
  • reemployment training

Examples

  • The government has introduced new programs to assist with reemployment for those affected by recent layoffs.

  • The number of laid-off workers accumulated to a dangerous level in the late 1990s because of the low rate of reemployment.

    Academic text (2001)
  • And because of that, they want to issue some sort of a reemployment incentive.

  • The workers get laid off from government projects, and their reemployment prospects are no better than they were to begin with.

    Blog text (9)
  • Indeed, the foregoing researchers found that self-efficacy was the only significant predictor of subsequent reemployment.

    Academic text (2000)
  • Despite the increasing social awareness of unemployment, they felt shame, inferiority, and degradation, and even after reemployment, feelings of failure persisted.

    Academic text (1995)
  • From 1995 onward, the Ministry of Labor permitted the funds to be used to finance reemployment training of workers laid off from SOEs (the problem of layoffs had worsened since 1993; see next section).

    Academic text (2001)
  • After being unemployed for several months, she finally found a path to reemployment through a local job fair.

  • His successful reemployment after a long absence from the workforce amazed his former colleagues.

Synonyms

reinstatement
vsreemployment
  • Formal
16 5.8

An act of putting someone back into their previous job or position

is broader, meaning getting a job again not necessarily to the same position
reappointment
vsreemployment
2 4.1

Being chosen again for a job or position

is about obtaining work again in general rather than formal re-selection for a post
reoccupation
vsreemployment
1 7.2

To return to a place, job, or position you had before

is used for getting a job again broadly, not only to a former place
rehire
vsreemployment
3.3

The act of giving someone a job again after they left

focuses on a person finding any job again after being unemployed or absent
reinstallation
vsreemployment
  • Formal
5.2

To put a person back into a job or position after they were removed

is less specific, covering any return to work rather than formal restoration to prior office

Antonyms

673 2.3

A time when people do not have paid jobs and look for work

Surface Forms

reemployment singular
reemployments plural

Morphology

reemployment = reemploy (transparent) = re + employ + ment

This is a standard noun formation from the verb 'reemploy', meaning the act or process of employing again.

Etymology

Reemployment comes from the prefix re- meaning 'again' and employment, from employ meaning 'to give work'. So reemployment is the act of getting a job 'again' after you were out of work.