appointment vs job

job vs appointment

appointment and job both are nouns.

appointment is not a verb while job is a verb.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
appointment	Yes	No	No	No
job	Yes	No	Yes	No

As nouns, job is a hypernym of appointment; that is, job is a word with a broader meaning than appointment:

appointment: the job to which you are (or hope to be) appointed
job: the principal activity in your life that you do to earn money

Other hypernyms of appointment include business, line, line of work, occupation.

appointment (noun)	job (noun)
the act of putting a person into a non-elective position	the principal activity in your life that you do to earn money
the job to which you are (or hope to be) appointed	a specific piece of work required to be done as a duty or for a specific fee
(law) the act of disposing of property by virtue of the power of appointment	a crime (especially a robbery)
(usually in the plural) furnishings and equipment (especially for a ship or hotel)	a damaging piece of work
a meeting arranged in advance	the responsibility to do something
a person who is appointed to a job or position	the performance of a piece of work
	a workplace; as in the expression `on the job'
	an object worked on; a result produced by working
	(computer science) a program application that may consist of several steps but is a single logical unit
	a state of difficulty that needs to be resolved

appointment (verb)	job (verb)
	invest at a risk
	work occasionally
	profit privately from public office and official business
	arranged for contracted work to be done by others

Difference between appointment and job

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