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تَوْظِيف
employment (hiring, giving someone a job) /tawˈðˤiːf/
nounB2#4018 most common
Also: hiring, recruitment, investment (of funds, in finance contexts)
Example sentences
مَكْتَبُ التَّوْظِيفِ قَرِيبٌ مِنْ بَيْتِي.
The employment office is near my house.
قَدَّمْتُ طَلَبَ تَوْظِيفٍ فِي الشَّرِكَةِ.
I submitted a job application to the company.
تُعْلِنُ الشَّرِكَةُ عَنْ حَمْلَةِ تَوْظِيفٍ جَدِيدَةٍ هَذَا الشَّهْرَ.
The company is announcing a new hiring campaign this month.
تَسْعَى الْحُكُومَةُ إِلَى زِيَادَةِ مُعَدَّلِ التَّوْظِيفِ بَيْنَ الشَّبَابِ.
The government is trying to raise the employment rate among young people.
أَدَّى التَّوَسُّعُ الِاقْتِصَادِيُّ إِلَى ارْتِفَاعٍ مَلْحُوظٍ فِي مُعَدَّلَاتِ التَّوْظِيفِ خِلَالَ الْعَامِ الْمَاضِي.
Economic expansion led to a noticeable rise in employment rates over the past year.
تَتَبَنَّى بَعْضُ الِاقْتِصَادَاتِ سِيَاسَاتِ تَوْظِيفٍ مَرِنَةً لِمُوَاجَهَةِ التَّقَلُّبَاتِ فِي سُوقِ الْعَمَلِ.
Some economies adopt flexible employment policies to cope with fluctuations in the labor market.
Declension
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | تَوْظِيفٌ | تَوْظِيفَاتٌ |
| Genitive | تَوْظِيفٍ | تَوْظِيفَاتٍ |
| Accusative | تَوْظِيفًا | تَوْظِيفَاتٍ |
| Vocative | تَوْظِيفُ | تَوْظِيفَاتُ |
Word family
وَظِيفَةjob, position, function
مُوَظَّفemployee
وَظَّفَto employ, to hire
وَظِيفِيّfunctional, occupational
Etymology
The word comes from the Semitic root و-ظ-ف (w-ẓ-f), which carries the idea of assigning a fixed task or post. The Form II verb وَظَّفَ means to appoint someone to a post or to employ them. تَوْظِيف is the verbal noun of that verb, built on the تَفْعِيل pattern typical of Form II maṣdars. Arabic is a Semitic language, not Indo-European, so it has no Proto-Indo-European root or cognates.
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