employment opportunity

collocation in English

meaningsofemploymentandopportunity

These words are often used together. Click on the links below to explore the meanings. Or,see other collocations withemploymentoropportunity.
employment
noun[U]
uk
/ɪmˈplɔɪ.mənt/us
/ɪmˈplɔɪ.mənt/
the fact of someone being paid to work for a company ...
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opportunity
noun
uk
/ˌɒp.əˈtʃuː.nə.ti/us
/ˌɑː.pɚˈtuː.nə.t̬i/
an occasion or situation that makes it possible to do something that you want to do or have to do, or the possibility of ...
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(Definition ofemploymentandopportunityfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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Nixon served as chair for a committee organized to oversee equalemploymentopportunityin government contracting.
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But many also saw the war as anemploymentopportunity, a ' ' steady wage in a line of work not generally open to women of that era.
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Young rejects the "myth of merit" (at 200ff), but she relies on a version of the relevancy principle in formulating her own standards for fairemploymentopportunity.
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The retraining needed to make such an aim attainable is also an essential feature of theemploymentopportunity.
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In fact, the main enemies to equality ofemploymentopportunityand pay for women are convention and male prejudice, both conscious and subconscious.
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I wish to encourage to the greatest possible extent absolute equality ofemploymentopportunityfor people with disabilities.
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This is a question of work pattern andemploymentopportunity.
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Clearly we welcome every new and profitableemploymentopportunitythat can be found.
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It is hardly surprising that security work is in many ways regarded as a potentialemploymentopportunityfor crooks.
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In these circumstances, as is always the case with a reduction ofemploymentopportunity, the pressures are greater than they would otherwise be.
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Our aim isemploymentopportunityfor all throughout the country.
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The health and social services boards provide equality ofemploymentopportunityin the services administered by them without regard to religious, political or racial considerations.
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That also indicates the lack of diversification ofemploymentopportunity.
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We are committed to the goal ofemploymentopportunityfor all.
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We need to increase investment andemploymentopportunityin all sectors.
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My constituent managed to find an alternativeemploymentopportunitythat allowed her to use her training and skills.
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It is not deterministic to say that poor parenting, poor schooling, poor health care, poverty or lack ofemploymentopportunitybreed crime.
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He should take into account their special needs and at the same time bear in mind their employment problems or lack ofemploymentopportunity.
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Our general regional policy objectives continue to be those of stimulating local self-generating growth and reducing inequalities ofemploymentopportunity.
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It is a programme foremploymentopportunity, rebuilding communities that have been hard hit, and improving the housing stock.
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