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employment

n. the hiring of a person for compensation. It is important to determine if acts occurred in the "scope of employment" to establish the possible responsibility of the employer to the employee for injuries on the job or to the public for acts of the employee.

See also: employee  respondeat superior  scope of employment  Workers' Compensation Acts  agency 



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