different between spending vs employment

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?sp?nd??/
• Hyphenation: spend?ing

Etymology 1

From Middle English spendyng, spendynge, from Old English spendung (“spending”), equivalent to spend +? -ing. Cognate with German Spendung (“contribution, donation”).

Noun

spending (countable and uncountable, plural spendings)

1. (uncountable) gerund of spend, expenditure.
2. An amount that has been, or is planned to be spent.

   excessive spendings

Hyponyms

• double spending

Etymology 2

From spend +? -ing.

Verb

spending

1. present participle of spend

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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