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Transaction vs Employment - What's the difference?

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Transaction is a related term of employment.


As nouns the difference between transaction and employment

is that transaction is the act of conducting or carrying out (business, negotiations, plans) while employment is a use, purpose.

transaction

Noun

(en noun)
  • The act of conducting or carrying out (business, negotiations, plans).
  • A deal or business agreement.
  • An exchange or trade, as of ideas, money, goods, etc.
  • (finance) The transfer of funds into, out of, or from an account.
  • (computing) An atomic operation; a message, data modification, or other procedure that is guaranteed to perform completely or not at all (e.g. a database transaction).
  • (especially in plural) A record of the proceedings of a learned society
  • See also

    * piece of the action ----

    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