employment exchange

noun

1. a former name for employment office

Example Sentences

They ran the house almost like an employment exchange, and families would come here to find nannies.

From BBC

In September 1945, the Evening Despatch newspaper quoted a medical officer who said: "More than once children have been handed from parent to adopting parent following a casual meeting in a queue or in an employment exchange."

From BBC

They criticized some of the laws he recently pushed through, including one forcing citizens to register with the state employment exchange or pay a hefty fine.

From Seattle Times

Warner: Maybe a public-private employment exchange, a disability exchange and workers' comp exchange.

From Washington Post

Unemployed people hand in registration forms at the employment exchange office in Allahabad, Uttar Pradesh.

From New York Times