different between employable vs employment

English

Etymology

employ +? -able

Adjective

employable (comparative more employable, superlative most employable)

1. (especially of a person) Able to be employed.

Antonyms

• unemployable

Translations

Noun

employable (plural employables)

1. A person who is fit for employment.

Translations

French

Adjective

employable (plural employables)

1. usable
2. employable

Related terms

• employer

Further reading

• “employable” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

English

Etymology

From employ (itself from Middle French employer, from Middle French empleier, from Latin implic? (“enfold, involve, be connected with”), itself from in- + plic? (“fold”)) +? -ment

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?m?pl??m?nt/, /?m?pl??m?nt/

Noun

employment (countable and uncountable, plural employments)

1. The work or occupation for which one is used, and often paid
2. The act of employing
3. A use, purpose

   The personnel director handled the whole employment procedure

4. The state of being employed
   • 1853, Herman Melville, Bartleby, the Scrivener, in Billy Budd, Sailor and Other Stories, New York: Penguin Books, 1968; reprint 1995 as Bartleby, ISBN 0 14 60.0012 9, p.3:

     At the period just preceding the advent of Bartleby, I had two persons as copyists in my employment, and a promising lad as an office-boy.

5. An activity to which one devotes time
6. (economics) The number or percentage of people at work

Synonyms

• employ
• hire

Antonyms

• unemployment
• underemployment

Related terms

Translations