An employment is an office; as, the secretary of the treasury has a laborious and responsible employment; an agency, as, the employment of an auctioneer; it signifies also the act by which one is engaged to do something.2. The employment of a printer to publish the laws of the United States, is not an office. This word does not necessarily import an engagement or rendering services for another. A person may as well be “employed” about his own business as in the transaction of the same for a principal. State v. Canton, 43 Mo. 51.