employment agency

employment agency
A business having the purpose of obtaining employment for persons who make application to it for employment, the agency being compensated by the applicants, usually in the form of a percentage of wages or salaries obtained in the employments in which the applicants are placed by the agency. Adams v Tanner, 244 US 590, 61 L Ed 1336, 37 S Ct 662.

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