{
  "id": "jobs.employment",
  "term": "jobs",
  "sense": "employment",
  "pos": "noun",
  "status": "review",
  "level": 18,
  "arena": "jobs",
  "domain": "common",
  "style": null,
  "definition": "regular role where people do work for pay",
  "folk_gloss": null,
  "emergence": {
    "components": [
      "work.effort",
      "pay.economic",
      "role.social",
      "payment.economic",
      "people.social",
      "regular.frequency"
    ],
    "interaction": "when effort is exchanged for economic payment within a social role that repeats over time, employment emerges",
    "novel_properties": [
      "sustained work-for-pay relationship",
      "role-specific responsibilities",
      "structured work schedule"
    ]
  },
  "examples": [
    {
      "text": "In 2023, Amazon employed 1.5 million people worldwide in warehouse and logistics roles.",
      "domain": "economics"
    },
    {
      "text": "The U.S. Postal Service has provided continuous mail delivery jobs since 1775 under federal operation.",
      "domain": "institutions"
    },
    {
      "text": "Tokyo's railway network maintains 18,000 commuter train jobs across daily schedules and repairs.",
      "domain": "engineering"
    }
  ],
  "relations": [
    {
      "id": "role.social",
      "note": "is-a",
      "type": "enables"
    },
    {
      "id": "pay.economic",
      "note": "enables",
      "type": "enables"
    }
  ],
  "used_by": [
    "career.occupation",
    "employment.economic"
  ],
  "forms": [
    "job",
    "jobs"
  ],
  "closed": true,
  "provenance": {
    "author": "openrouter:openai/gpt-oss-120b",
    "date": "2026-07-29",
    "confidence": 0.6,
    "reconciled": {
      "by": "openrouter:qwen/qwen3-235b-a22b-2507",
      "date": "2026-07-31",
      "changed": "components",
      "note": "Added missing constitutive concepts: payment.economic, people.social, and regular.frequency to align with definition."
    }
  },
  "canonical": "https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-jobs.employment"
}