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Employment vs Conflict - What's the difference?

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Employment is a related term of conflict.


As nouns the difference between employment and conflict

is that employment is a use, purpose while conflict is a clash or disagreement, often violent, between two opposing groups or individuals.

As a verb conflict is

to be at odds (with); to disagree or be incompatible.

employment

English

Noun

(wikipedia employment)
  • A use, purpose
  • * 1873 , John Stuart Mill, Autobiography of John Stuart Mill
    • This new employment of his time caused no relaxation in his attention to my education.
  • The act of employing
    • ''The personnel director handled the whole employment procedure
  • 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:
    • 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.
  • 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

    • Synonyms

    * employ * hire

    Antonyms

    * unemployment * underemployment

    Related terms

    * employ * employable * employed * employee * employer

    conflict

    English

    (wikipedia conflict)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A clash or disagreement, often violent, between two opposing groups or individuals.
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2013-07-19, author= Mark Tran
    • , volume=189, issue=6, page=1, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly) , title= Denied an education by war , passage=One particularly damaging, but often ignored, effect of conflict on education is the proliferation of attacks on schools
  • An incompatibility, as of two things that cannot be simultaneously fulfilled.

    • Related terms

    * conflictional

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To be at odds (with); to disagree or be incompatible
  • * '>citation
  • To overlap (with), as in a schedule.
    • Your conference call conflicts with my older one: please reschedule.

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