employment office(an agency that finds people to fill particular jobs or finds jobs for unemployed people • Syn: employment agency. WN3. (British) any of a number of government offices established to collect and supply to the unemployed information about job vacancies and to employers information about availability of prospective workers Former names: employment exchange, labour exchange See also Jobcentre Example Sentences Including "employment office" 'Well, first we have to discuss my placement fee – I'm acting like an employment office , right? Jon Cleary YESTERDAY'S SHADOW (2002) I didn't want to go to the employment office in case they'd find out my name, and what I'd done. Isabel Wolff RESCUING ROSE (2002) If friends or family cannot help, the answer could lie with a student employment office. INDEPENDENT (1998) She said: `If there is an employment office make an appointment and give the adviser full details of your skills and previous employment. INDEPENDENT (1998). Collins Alexander Demidov)
