Definition of "ployment" [ploy•ment]

• The act or movement of forming a column from a line of troops on some designated subdivision; the opposite of deployment. (noun)

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• "Instead, it produced a virus known as "long-term unem ployment.""
• "Artists often address pressing social ills that affect young people from South Africa's still impoverished black townships: unem-ployment, violence, crime, racism."
• ""It's a Dole plot to raise the unem - ployment rate in time for the election," one staff - er joked."