different between exploitation vs employment

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French exploitation, from exploiter (“exploit”), from Latin explic? (“unfold, deploy”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??kspl???te??n?/
• Rhymes: -e???n
• Hyphenation: ex?ploi?ta?tion

Noun

exploitation (countable and uncountable, plural exploitations)

1. The act of utilizing something; industry.
2. The improper use of something for selfish purposes.

   the exploitation of children in beauty pageants

3. The act or result of forcibly depriving someone of something to which he or she has a natural right.

   Undocumented migrants are vulnerable to exploitation

4. The marketing and promotion of a film.
   • 1928, Canada. Dept. of Trade and Commerce, Annual Report

     This territory continued to be the greatest field for the exploitation and distribution of our films non-theatrically, […]

   • 2017, Finola Kerrigan, Film Marketing

     The difference is that obtaining increased financial input during the production phase of the film reduces the risk during the exploitation phase.

Derived terms

Related terms

• exploit
• exploitable

Translations

Further reading

• "exploitation" in Raymond Williams, Keywords (revised), 1983, Fontana Press, page 130.

French

Etymology

exploiter +? -ation, Medieval Latin exploitationem

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?k.splwa.ta.sj??/

Noun

exploitation f (plural exploitations)

1. exploitation

Derived terms

• système d'exploitation

Further reading

• “exploitation” 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

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