emprego

== Galician == === Pronunciation === Hyphenation: em‧pre‧go === Etymology 1 === Deverbal from empregar (“to employ”). The dated meaning "cattle" probably because of an euphemism: ter un emprego na corte, meaning "to have a job at the court" or a job paid by the state, but then understood as "to have cattle in the stable", so "being a farmer" (see corte). ==== Noun ==== emprego m (plural empregos) job Synonyms: traballo, ocupación, cargo use; usage Synonyms: uso, aplicación (uncountable) employment Antonym: desemprego (dated, humorous) cattle; head of cattle (the text is full of false friends for a Spanish speaker) Synonyms: gando, res ===== Related terms ===== === Etymology 2 === See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form. ==== Verb ==== emprego first-person singular present indicative of empregar ==== References ==== Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “emprego”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “emprego”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega == Portuguese == === Etymology 1 === Deverbal from empregar (“to employ”). ==== Pronunciation ==== Rhymes: -eɡu Hyphenation: em‧pre‧go ==== Noun ==== emprego m (plural empregos) job (economic role for which a person is paid) Synonyms: trabalho, serviço, ocupação, função, cargo use; usage (the act of using something or the way something is used) Synonyms: uso, aplicação (uncountable) employment (the state of being employed) Antonym: desemprego ===== Alternative forms ===== emprêgo (obsolete) ===== Related terms ===== empregado empregador empregar === Etymology 2 === See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form. ==== Pronunciation ==== Rhymes: -ɛɡu Hyphenation: em‧pre‧go ==== Verb ==== emprego first-person singular present indicative of empregar === Further reading === “emprego”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026 “emprego”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026