steady employment

collocation in English

meaningsofsteadyandemployment

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steady
adjective
uk
/ˈsted.i/us
/ˈsted.i/
happening in a smooth, gradual, and regular way, not suddenly ...
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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 ofsteadyandemploymentfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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This means that the textileworkers had more or lesssteadyemploymentwith their draper, although the amounts they produced varied considerably.
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That is, they could seek to transfer to other owners who promised higher wages or moresteadyemployment.
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The table assumessteadyemploymentof the loom employing one master weaver together with three assistants further assisted by an unspecified amount of female and child labour in the family.
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Most immigrants achieve this objective soon after they arrive, and look forward to prospects ofsteadyemploymentfor years ahead.
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These schemes are intended to help those particular areas and are formed with the idea of getting better prices andsteadyemploymentin those areas.
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I am taking a case now of a railway employé who has been 22 years employed in onesteadyemployment.
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It is otherwise with these young men who came out of the war and have had no chance ofsteadyemploymentsince.
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Secondly, attachment of earnings can only be used when the offender is insteadyemployment.
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What is less generally realised is that the majority of wage earners who have remained in steady or fairlysteadyemploymenthave not profited either.
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I repeat that there are difficulties in findingsteadyemploymentfor people of this type.
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They have nosteadyemployment, but look diligently for a roan to engage them to work for him.
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Every effort is made to ensuresteadyemploymentfor as many men as possible, but some fluctuations are unavoidable, as work varies.
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He is an industrialist who has been givingsteadyemployment.
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These smallholding projects are most important, because they help to raise the standard of living and provide usefulsteadyemploymentfor a growing population.
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We must follow a fuel policy which providessteadyemploymentfor the miners at the highest possible pay.
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The base will remain a naval base and continue to givesteadyemploymentto between 5,500 and 6,000 people.
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The one in my constituency is the only one which was able, during the first year of the depression, to give anysteadyemployment.
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It is doing away with collective agreements and full-timesteadyemployment.
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Also, a faster stream of orders is needed to keep a given labour force insteadyemployment.
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