satisfactory employment

collocation in English

meaningsofsatisfactoryandemployment

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satisfactory
adjective
uk
/ˌsæt.ɪsˈfæk.tər.i/us
/ˌsæt̬.ɪsˈfæk.tɚ.i/
good or good enough for a particular need ...
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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 ofsatisfactoryandemploymentfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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Young people from ethnic minorities grow up with no expectation of anysatisfactoryemployment.
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Such stations often provide employment for younger people in rural areas who cannot find othersatisfactoryemployment.
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Are steps being taken to findsatisfactoryemploymentfor these men, who may be extremely useful?
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These grants are paid until the trainee reaches a standard at which he can obtainsatisfactoryemployment.
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It has responsibilities for improving the operation of the labour market and for helping people who have difficulty in finding or keepingsatisfactoryemployment.
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Many of those young people have gone on to find perfectlysatisfactoryemployment.
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It is expected thatsatisfactoryemploymentwill be found for most of them.
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It is as a result of our assistance that in many other cases the settlers have foundsatisfactoryemployment.
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Such action would evoke a response from the young, who face the melancholy prospect, having left school, of not obtainingsatisfactoryemploymentfor years.
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The effect would be simply to reduce the chance of his findingsatisfactoryemploymentat all.
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If one is consideringsatisfactoryemploymentlasting for any length of time, all three parties have to be satisfied that it is suitable, not least the employer.
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Our minds are perplexed sometimes when we try to grapple with the problem of the wastage of young people who are unable to obtainsatisfactoryemployment.
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It seems to me that the economic policy that we want is one which givessatisfactoryemployment, on the one hand, and a rising standard of living on the other.
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Suitable adult persons will be given 12 months' practical training on approved farms, after which there should be little or no difficulty in their findingsatisfactoryemploymentin the industry.
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The skilled engineers who form a large part of the work force are not expected to find difficulty, in present conditions, in finding othersatisfactoryemployment.
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