employment vs job

job vs employment

employment and job both are nouns.

employment is not a verb while job is a verb.

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

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

employment: the occupation for which you are paid
job: the principal activity in your life that you do to earn money

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

employment (noun)	job (noun)
the occupation for which you are paid	the principal activity in your life that you do to earn money
the act of using	a specific piece of work required to be done as a duty or for a specific fee
the act of giving someone a job	a crime (especially a robbery)
the state of being employed or having a job	a damaging piece of work
	the responsibility to do something
	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

employment (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 employment and job

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