different between employment vs recruitment

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

English

Etymology

recruit +? -ment. French recrutement.

Noun

recruitment (countable and uncountable, plural recruitments)

1. The process or art of finding candidates for a post in an organization, or recruits for the armed forces.
2. A style or process of recruiting.
3. (biology, ecology) The addition of new recruits to a population.
4. (physiology) The full aeration of a lung.

Derived terms

• derecruitment
• hyperrecruitment
• overrecruitment
• underrecruitment

Related terms

• recruiter

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