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re-employment

British  

noun

  1. the act or an instance of employing or being employed again

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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Workers who lose jobs in fields hit by automation take a month longer to find new jobs and suffer 3% real earning losses after re-employment compared with workers displaced from other fields.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 6, 2026

That partly reflects the state’s higher unemployment and accompanying increases in layoffs and jobless claims in the tech industry and other sectors, but also its comparatively easier eligibility rules and low re-employment rate.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 18, 2024

“For workers who want re-employment in tech, they’re going to have a harder time and a much more competitive environment,” she said.

From Washington Post • Jan. 4, 2023

But over a 16-year career he always found re-employment.

From BBC • Oct. 25, 2022

Even a former Macy employee, accepting re-employment, must go through the department of training for, like everything that grows, the store system changes steadily from year to year and from month to month.

From The Romance of a Great Store by Hungerford, Edward