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Intervention vs Employment - What's the difference?

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As nouns the difference between intervention and employment

is that intervention is intervention (act of intervening) while employment is a use, purpose.

intervention

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • The action of intervening; interfering in some course of events.
  • * {{quote-news
  • , year=2011 , date=October 29 , author=Phil McNulty , title=Chelsea 3 - 5 Arsenal , work=BBC Sport citation , page= , passage=Fernando Torres was recalled in place of the suspended Didier Drogba and he was only denied a goal in the opening seconds by Laurent Koscielny's intervention - a moment that set the tone for game filled with attacking quality and littered with errors.}}
  • (US, legal) A legal motion through which a person or entity who has not been named as a party to a case seeks to have the court order that they be made a party.
  • An orchestrated attempt to convince somebody with an addiction or other psychological problem to seek professional help and/or change their behavior.
  • Derived terms

    * divine intervention * interventionism * macrointervention * microintervention

    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