Employment vs Leisure - What's the difference?
employment | leisure |
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
Freedom provided by the cessation of activities.
Time free from work or duties.
* Sir W. Temple
* 1811 , Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility , chapter 11
* 1908 , William David Ross (translator), Aristotle,
Time at one's command, free from engagement; convenient opportunity; hence, convenience; ease.
* Dryden
As nouns the difference between employment and leisure
is that employment is a use, purpose while leisure is freedom provided by the cessation of activities.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 * underemploymentleisure
English
Noun
- The desire of leisure is much more natural than of business and care.
- Little had Mrs. Dashwood or her daughters imagined when they first came into Devonshire, that so many engagements would arise to occupy their time as shortly presented themselves, or that they should have such frequent invitations and such constant visitors as to leave them little leisure for serious employment.
- This is why the mathematical arts were founded in Egypt; for there the priestly caste was allowed to be at leisure .
- He sighed, and had no leisure more to say.