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Inflation vs Employ - What's the difference?

inflation | employ |

As nouns the difference between inflation and employ

is that inflation is inflation while employ is the state of being an employee; employment.

As a verb employ is

to hire (somebody for work or a job).

inflation

English

(wikipedia inflation)

Noun

(en noun)
  • An act, instance of, or state of expansion or increase in size, especially by injection of a gas.
    • The inflation of the balloon took five hours.
  • (economics) An increase in the general level of prices or in the cost of living.
  • (economics) A decline in the value of money.
  • (economics) An increase in the quantity of money, leading to a devaluation of existing money.
  • Undue expansion or increase, as of academic grades.
  • (cosmology) An extremely rapid expansion of the universe, theorised to have occurred very shortly after the big bang.

    • Antonyms

    * deflation

    Derived terms

    * core inflation * grade inflation * hyperinflation * inflationary * stagflation * superinflation * taxonomic inflation

    Related terms

    * inflate * conflation * reflation

    References

    * (cosmology) Burgess & , "The Great Cosmic Roller-Coaster Ride", Scientific American , November 2007, pg. 57.

    Anagrams

    * ----

    employ

    English

    Alternative forms

    * (l) (obsolete)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The state of being an employee; employment.
    • ''The school district has six thousand teachers in its employ .

    Synonyms

    * employment * hire

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To hire (somebody for work or a job).
  • * 1668 July 3rd, , “Thomas Rue contra'' Andrew Hou?toun” in ''The Deci?ions of the Lords of Council & Se??ion I (Edinburgh, 1683), page 547
    • Andrew Hou?toun'' and ''Adam Mu?het'', being Tack?men of the Excize, did Imploy ''Thomas Rue'' to be their Collector, and gave him a Sallary of 30. pound ''Sterling for a year.
  • *{{quote-book, year=1959, author=(Georgette Heyer), title=(The Unknown Ajax), chapter=1
    • , passage=Charles had not been employed above six months at Darracott Place, but he was not such a whopstraw as to make the least noise in the performance of his duties when his lordship was out of humour.}}
  • To use (somebody for a job, or something for a task).
  • * 1598 , (William Shakespeare), (Othello) , Act 1, Scene iii:
    • Valiant Othello, we must straight employ you / against the general enemy Ottoman.
  • * (Joseph Addison) (1672-1719)
    • This is a day in which the thoughtsought to be employed on serious subjects.
  • *{{quote-magazine, year=2013, month=May-June, author= Charles T. Ambrose
    • , title= Alzheimer’s Disease , volume=101, issue=3, page=200, magazine=(American Scientist) , passage=Similar studies of rats have employed four different intracranial resorbable, slow sustained release systems—surgical foam, a thermal gel depot, a microcapsule or biodegradable polymer beads.}}
  • *{{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-07, author=(Gary Younge)
    • , volume=188, issue=26, page=18, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly) , title= Hypocrisy lies at heart of Manning prosecution , passage=The dispatches […] also exposed the blatant discrepancy between the west's professed values and actual foreign policies. Having lectured the Arab world about democracy for years, its collusion in suppressing freedom was undeniable as protesters were met by weaponry and tear gas made in the west, employed by a military trained by westerners.}}
  • To make busy.
  • * 1598 , (William Shakespeare), (The Merchant of Venice) , Act 2, Scene viii:
    • Let it not enter in your mind of love: / Be merry, and employ your chiefest thoughts / to courtship and such fair ostents of love / as shall conveniently become you there

    Derived terms

    * employee * employer * employment

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