job vs vocation
vocation vs jobjob and vocation both are nouns.
job is a verb but vocation is not a verb.
| Word | Noun | Adjective | Verb | Adverb |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| job | Yes | No | Yes | No |
| vocation | Yes | No | No | No |
As nouns,
vocation is a hyponym of
job; that is, vocation is a
word with a more specific, narrower meaning than
job:
- job: the principal activity in your life that you do to earn money
- vocation: the particular occupation for which you are trained
Other hyponyms of job include
confectionery, sport, farming, land, biz, game, calling, career, employment, work, appointment, berth, office, place, position, post, situation, salt mine, treadmill, craft, trade, profession, medium, metier, accountancy, accounting, photography, catering.
| job (noun) | vocation (noun) |
|---|---|
| the principal activity in your life that you do to earn money | the particular occupation for which you are trained |
| a specific piece of work required to be done as a duty or for a specific fee | a body of people doing the same kind of work |
| a crime (especially a robbery) | |
| 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 |
| job (verb) | vocation (verb) |
|---|---|
| invest at a risk | |
| work occasionally | |
| profit privately from public office and official business | |
| arranged for contracted work to be done by others |
Words related to "job"
- accountancy
- accounting
- activity
- application
- application program
- applications programme
- appointment
- balance-of-payments problem
- ball-breaker
- ball-buster
- berth
- biz
- bull
- business
- calling
- caper
- career
- catering
- cheat
- chisel
- chore
- commit
- computer science
- computing
- confectionery
- craft
- difficultness
- difficulty
- do work
- duty
- employ
- employment
- engage
- farm out
- farming
- game
- hire
- invest
- land
- line
- line of work
- medium
- metier
- obligation
- occupation
- office
- photography
- place
- position
- post
- problem
- product
- production
- profession
- put
- race problem
- responsibility
- robbery
- salt mine
- scut work
- shitwork
- situation
- speculate
- sport
- stint
- subcontract
- task
- trade
- treadmill
- vocation
- work
- workplace
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