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employment （‘business, occupation’ is the usual sense)
1. (one's) service John I. i. 198 “At your employment.”
2. purpose, use R2 I. i. 90 “for lewd e-”
A Shakespeare Glossary. C. T. Onions. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1911.

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    • William Shakespeare, King John, 1.1
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