Appointment vs Employment - What's the difference?
appointment | employment |
The act of appointing; designation of a person to hold an office or discharge a trust.
The state of being appointed to a service or office; an office to which one is appointed; station; position.
Stipulation; agreement; the act of fixing by mutual agreement.
An arrangement for a meeting; an engagement.
Decree; direction; established order or constitution.
(Law) The exercise of the power of designating (under a power of appointment ) a person to enjoy an estate or other specific property; also, the instrument by which the designation is made.
(Government) The assignment of a person by an official to perform a duty, such as a presidential appointment of a judge to a court.
Equipment, furniture.
* 1910 , (Saki), ‘The Soul of Laploshka’, Reginald in Russia :
(US) A honorary part or exercise, as an oration, etc., at a public exhibition of a college; as, to have an appointment.
A use, purpose
* 1873 , John Stuart Mill, Autobiography of John Stuart Mill
The act of employing
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:
The work or occupation for which one is used, and often paid
An activity to which one devotes time
(economics) The number or percentage of people at work
As nouns the difference between appointment and employment
is that appointment is the act of appointing; designation of a person to hold an office or discharge a trust while employment is a use, purpose.appointment
English
(wikipedia appointment)Noun
(en noun)- He erred by the appointment of unsuitable men.
- the appointment of treasurer
- They made an appointment to meet at six.
- I'm leaving work early because I have a doctor's appointment .
- To submit to the divine appointments .
- According to the appointment of the priests. --Ezra vi. 9.
- The appointments were primitive, but the Schnitzel, the beer, and the cheese could not have been improved on.
Synonyms
* command * designation * direction * equipment * establishment * orderAntonyms
* (act of appointing) dismissalSee also
* calendar * meeting * scheduleemployment
English
Noun
(wikipedia employment)- This new employment of his time caused no relaxation in his attention to my education.
- ''The personnel director handled the whole employment procedure
- 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.