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employment history

employment history noun: a documented record of a person's prior paid work, typically including employers, positions held, dates of employment, and major duties or responsibilities.

Noun

employment history (countable and uncountable, plural employment histories)

  1. A documented record of a person's prior paid work, typically including employers, positions held, dates of employment, and major duties or responsibilities.
    • The applicant who has a stable employment history is less likely to have fallen behind on other bills than the applicant who bounces from job to job or has employment broken up by periods of unemployment […]1999, Lavern S. Urlacher, Small Business Entrepreneurship, page 338
    Synonyms:
    work history

Synonyms of employment history

Forms of employment history

pluralemployment histories

Questions about employment history

What does employment history mean?
Employment history means a documented record of a person's prior paid work, typically including employers, positions held, dates of employment, and major duties or responsibilities.
What part of speech is employment history?
Employment history is a noun.
What is the plural of employment history?
The plural of employment history is employment histories.

Words near employment history in the dictionary

  1. employment at will
  2. employment contract
  3. employment contracts
  4. employment exchange
  5. employment histories
  6. employment history
  7. employment tribunal
  8. employment tribunals
  9. employment-at-will
  10. employmentally challenged
  11. employments

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Adapted from Wiktionary: employment history (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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