job vs employment

employment vs job

job and employment both are nouns.

job is a verb but employment is not a verb.

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

As nouns, employment is a hyponym of job; that is, employment is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than job:

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

Other hyponyms of job include confectionery, sport, farming, land, biz, game, calling, career, vocation, work, appointment, berth, office, place, position, post, situation, salt mine, treadmill, craft, trade, profession, medium, metier, accountancy, accounting, photography, catering.

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

job (verb)	employment (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 job and employment

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