Employment vs Battle - What's the difference?
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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
Improving; nutritious; fattening.
Fertile; fruitful.
To nourish; feed.
To render fertile or fruitful, as in soil.
A general action, fight, or encounter, in which all the divisions of an army are or may be engaged; an engagement; a combat.
A struggle; a contest.
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*(rfdate) (Henry Morley) (1822-1894):
*:The whole intellectual battle that had at its centre the best poem of the best poet of that day.
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*:In truth, Tottenham never really looked like taking all three points and this defeat means they face a battle to reach the knockout stages—with their next home game against PAOK Salonika on 30 November likely to prove decisive.
*2012',
*:Australian broadcaster Clive James has admitted that he is losing his long-fought battle with leukaemia.
A division of an army; a battalion.
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*:THenne kyng Arthur made redy his hoost in x batails' and Nero was redy in the felde afore the castel Tarabil with a grete hoost / & he had x ' batails with many mo peple than Arthur had
*(rfdate) (Francis Bacon) (1561-1626):
*:The king divided his army into three battles .
*(rfdate) (1721-1793):
*:The cavalry, by way of distinction, was called the battle , and on it alone depended the fate of every action.
*2000 , (George RR Martin), A Storm of Swords , Bantam 2011, page 634:
*:‘I will have more than twelve thousand men. I mean to divide them into three battles and start up the causeway a half-day apart.’
(label) The main body, as distinct from the vanguard and rear; battalia.
:(Hayward)
To join in battle; to contend in fight; as, to battle over theories.
To assail in battle; to fight or struggle.
Employment is a related term of battle.
As a noun employment
is a use, purpose.As a proper noun battle is
from places in england that have been sites of a battle.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.
Synonyms
* employ * hireAntonyms
* unemployment * underemploymentbattle
English
Etymology 1
From Early Modern English .Alternative forms
*Adjective
(en adjective)- battle''' grass'', '''''battle pasture
- battle''' soil'', '''''battle land
Derived terms
*Verb
(battl)Derived terms
* (l) *Etymology 2
From (etyl) (m), from (etyl) (m), from ). Displaced native (etyl) .Alternative forms
* batailNoun
(en noun)Clive James 'near the end' in cancer 'battle , ITV News, 21 June 2012:
Synonyms
* conflict * encounter * contest * actionDerived terms
* battlearray * battlefield * battleground / battle ground * battle of the sexes * battle piece * battle royal * battle song * do battle * drawn battle * fight a losing battle * give battle * join battle * pitched battle * wager of battleVerb
(battl)- She has been battling against cancer for years .
- She has been battling cancer for years .