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Employment vs Emplotment - What's the difference?

employment | emplotment |

As nouns the difference between employment and emplotment

is that employment is a use, purpose while emplotment is the assembly of a series of historical events into a narrative with a plot.

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

    emplotment

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (historiography) The assembly of a series of historical events into a narrative with a plot.
  • * 1978 , , "The Historical Text As Literary Artifact", re-printed in Geoffrey Roberts (editor), The History and Narrative Reader , Routledge (2001), ISBN 041523249X, page 223,
    • Yet, I would argue, histories gain part of their explanatory effect by their success in making stories out of mere'' chronicles; and stories in turn are made out of chronicles by an operation which I have elsewhere called “emplotment'''.” And by '''emplotment I mean simply the encodation of the facts contained in the chronicle as components of specific ''kinds of plot structures, in precisely the way that Frye has suggested is the case with “fictions” in general.