re-employmentn.

1625 G. Salteren Sacræ Heptades Pref. ❧❧4 They who are most greedie and unsatiable in seeking after offices, haue least leasure and desire to performe the Dueties of them. And that..the Cleargie who never opposed the reimployment of silenced Ministers, (who were not turbulent) did well understand.

1765 R. Grenville-Temple Princ. of Late Changes Impartially Examined 22 If the same Gazette had announced the restoration of these great Ministers, and the re-employment of the Favorite's br—r, the Monument should have been hung with mourning.

1792 T. Jefferson Let. 14 Mar. in Papers (1990) XXIII. 283 His re-employment was never more to be thought of.

1817 Edinb. Advertiser 11 July 28/4 The censure upon this occasion will be noted as a bar to his re-employment in the service.

1893 Columbus (Ohio) Dispatch 7 Aug. It is to be hoped that relief will come, in the way of re-employment, before cold weather sets in.

1912 Amer. Econ. Rev. 2 i. 48 The time elapsing between its replenishment of the 5 per cent fund and the re-employment of its own notes re-issued by the Comptroller.

1939 Fortune Oct. 62/1 There was little of the miraculous in the first phases of the reëmployment drive, for Hitler only took longer steps where his predecessors had taken shorter ones.

2004 H. Kennedy Just Law (2005) xi. 233 Since human capital is the raw material of any economic system, an enlightened government ensures that the pool of unemployed labour is kept fit and fed and ready for re-employment.