different between employment vs calling

employment

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

employment From the web:

  • what employment sector is identified with information processing
  • what employment posters are required
  • what employment mean
  • what employment/economic sector is identified with mining
  • what employment history in resume
  • what employment status mean
  • what employment type am i
  • what employment expenses can i claim


calling

English

Etymology

call +? -ing

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /?k??l??/
  • Rhymes: -??l??

Verb

calling

  1. present participle of call

Noun

calling (plural callings)

  1. A strong urge to become religious.
  2. A job or occupation.

Synonyms

  • vocation

Translations

calling From the web:

  • what callings come from the stake presidency
  • what calling apps work in dubai
  • what calling out means
  • what calling restrictions mean
  • what callings does the bishop extend
  • what callings does the stake president extended
  • what callings come from high council
  • what callings are extended by stake president
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