Drudgery vs Employment - What's the difference?
drudgery | employment | Related terms |
tedious, menial and exhausting work
* 1748 . David Hume. Enquiries concerning the human understanding and concerning the principles of moral. London: Oxford University Press, 1973. ยง 34.
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
Drudgery is a related term of employment.
As nouns the difference between drudgery and employment
is that drudgery is tedious, menial and exhausting work while employment is a use, purpose.drudgery
English
Noun
- we are, perhaps, all the while flattering our natural indolence, which, hating the bustle of the world, and drudgery of business seeks a pretence of reason to give itself a full and uncontrolled indulgence.
Synonyms
* tedium * moil * See alsoDerived terms
* drudgerous (rare)employment
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.
