meaningful employment

collocation in English

meaningsofmeaningfulandemployment

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meaningful
adjective
uk
/ˈmiː.nɪŋ.fəl/us
/ˈmiː.nɪŋ.fəl/
intended to show meaning, ...
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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 ofmeaningfulandemploymentfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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Many women argued that appearing more youthful allowed them to compete for significant others,meaningfulemploymentand social recognition.
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More telling, and more relevant for far greater numbers of individuals, will be the allowance to pursuemeaningfulemploymentor housing and the chance to integrate into society.
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Until there ismeaningfulemployment, youngsters will and certainly do feel totally neglected.
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Too many young men and women now leave school and college with no prospect ofmeaningfulemployment.
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People want to tell their children that, after their education is finished, they can walk with their heads held high intomeaningfulemployment.
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We must seriously address ourselves to the problem of giving our people full andmeaningfulemployment.
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It is so much better for people to be inmeaningfulemploymentrather than waiting for the next social security cheque.
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I am not in favour of facile solutions that mask a real problem of providingmeaningfulemploymentfor people of working age.
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A strong competitive environment is developing, in which we will have to try harder and harder to maintainmeaningfulemploymentfor our citizens.
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It is about finding new ways formeaningfulemploymentwhich allow people to combine business with pleasure.
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The reward for all this effort should be moremeaningfulemploymentand a greater value put on employees.
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Those who have been there know its importance in generating any sort ofmeaningfulemployment.
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Percentages do not matter to the individual who is unemployed because so far as he is concerned unemployment is 100 per cent, until someone can give himmeaningfulemployment.
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We needmeaningfulemployment, social tasks, fulfilling tasks for older people, barrier-free living, new forms of housing, and, if necessary, excellent nursing care and medical care.
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As an actor who is frequently not in loan, his stories about gainingmeaningfulemploymentare an asset to many social settings.
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Projects emphasize regional contexts as bases for responsible resource use relative to materials, energy, water, waste, food, andmeaningfulemployment.
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They provide core skills for those who may not have done well at school and who may find it difficult to securemeaningfulemployment.
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After relentless touring, members began paying attention to their personal lives again, pursuing artistic endeavors andmeaningfulemployment.
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For most people,meaningfulemploymentis a key element in their economic, social and personal lives.
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New initiatives include collaborating with area businesses to locate and createmeaningfulemployment opportunities for students and adults based on their individual talents and preferences.
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