different between practitioner vs employment

English

Etymology

Formerly practicioner for *practicianer, from practician + -er (the suffix unnecessarily added, as in musicianer).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /p?æk?t???n?/
• (US) IPA^(key): /p?æk?t???n??/

Noun

practitioner (plural practitioners)

1. A person who practices a profession or art, especially law or medicine.
2. One who does anything customarily or habitually.
3. (dated) A sly or artful person.
   • c. 1572, John Whitgift, Admonition to the Parliament

     […] the men of St. John's were cunning practitioners, in shaking off their Masters and Heads.

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• practitioner at OneLook Dictionary Search

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

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