different between employment vs occupation
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)
- The work or occupation for which one is used, and often paid
- The act of employing
- A use, purpose
- The personnel director handled the whole employment procedure
- 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.
- 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:
- An activity to which one devotes time
- (economics) The number or percentage of people at work
Synonyms
- employ
- hire
Antonyms
- unemployment
- underemployment
Related terms
Translations
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occupation
English
Etymology
From Middle English occupacioun, borrowed from Middle French occupation, from Latin occup?tio.
Pronunciation
- (US) IPA(key): /?kj??pe???n/, /?kj??pe???n/
- (UK) IPA(key): /?kj??pe???n/, /?kj??pe???n/
- Rhymes: -e???n
Noun
occupation (countable and uncountable, plural occupations)
- An activity or task with which one occupies oneself; usually specifically the productive activity, service, trade, or craft for which one is regularly paid; a job.
- The act, process or state of possessing a place.
- The control of a country or region by a hostile army.
Synonyms
- (activity with which one occupies oneself) employment, interest, line of work, profession, vocation
Translations
French
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin occup?tio, occup?ti?nem. Synchronically analysable as occuper +? -ation.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?.ky.pa.sj??/
Noun
occupation f (plural occupations)
- occupation (the occupying of a territory; something that one spends one's time on, such as a job or a hobby; act of occupying, of being an occupant)
Related terms
- occuper
Further reading
- “occupation” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
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