total employment

collocation in English

meaningsoftotalandemployment

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total
adjective
uk
/ˈtəʊ.təl/us
/ˈtoʊ.t̬əl/
including ...
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employment
noun[U]
uk
/ɪmˈplɔɪ.mənt/us
/ɪmˈplɔɪ.mənt/
the fact of someone being paid to work for a company ...
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(Definition oftotalandemploymentfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesoftotal employment

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By 1970, then, agriculture apparently generated less than 30 per cent oftotalemploymentand by 1989 only about 20 per cent.
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In absolute numbers, there were fewer workers in agriculture in 1989 than in 1959, and agriculture's share intotalemploymentseems to have halved.
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Because organic apple production is more labor intensive, thetotalemploymenteffect of organic production is greater than that of conventional apple production.
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As late as 1989, state employment accounted for 94 per cent oftotalemployment.
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Totalemploymentrent could then be redistributed as an additional basic income.
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First, the share of the new private sector intotalemploymentincreased radically.
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One measure of the role of the private sector is its share oftotalemployment.
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Thetotalemploymentof the forest sectors and the whole economy by 2010 is projected to increase by 0.84 million and 0.93 million, respectively.
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Increases in construction employment (due to the project) accounted for 40 per cent oftotalemploymentincreases during this period.
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The number of unfulfilled vacancies increased from 41,000 in 1994 to about 200,000 in 2000, which is about 2.5 per cent oftotalemployment.
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Thetotalemploymentof the forest sectors is projected to increase by 0.84 million by 2010.
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To reduce the public deficit,totalemploymentin the public sector has been reduced by about 180 thousand employees.
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Not only has the public sector's share oftotalemploymentdeclined in many countries; quite likely, the egalitarian effects of public employment have also diminished.
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The weak relationship with entrepreneurial activity is very possibly due to his weak measure, which only counts the number of entrepreneurs and self-employed, not thetotalemployment.
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By the end of the 1985-86 rehabilitation programmes,totalemploymenthad increased to 1,320, 13.4 per cent above the total at the end of 1982.
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The cost to the employers will be extremely small and, in most cases, negligible in theirtotalemploymentcosts.
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Totalemploymenthas fallen from about 19,000 to 13,000 in the last five or six years and many companies are in great difficulty.
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We should be facing the situation of risingtotalemployment.
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Figures fortotalemploymentare available only for the end month of each quarter.
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