employment

Main Entry:
employment [em-ploi-muhnt]
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: working for a living;
Synonyms: assignment, avocation, awarding, business, calling, carrying, commissioning, contracting, craft, employ, engagement in activity application, engaging, enlistment, enrollment, exercise, exercising, exertion, field, function, game*, hire, hiring, job, line, mission, métier, number, occupation, occupying, office, position, post, profession, pursuit, racket, recruitment, retaining, service, servicing, setup, signing on, situation, taking on, thing*, trade, using, vocation, what one is into, work
Antonyms: idleness, inactivity, unemployment
Main Entry: affair
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: matter or business to be taken care of; happening activity
Synonyms: assignment, avocation, calling, case, circumstance, concern, duty, employment, episode, event, hap, happening, incident, interest, job, mission, obligation, occupation, occurrence, office function, proceeding, profession, project, province, pursuit, question, realm, responsibility, subject, task, thing*, topic, transaction, undertaking
Main Entry: application
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: use
Synonyms: appliance, appositeness, employment, exercise, exercising, function, germaneness, operation, pertinence, play, practice, purpose, relevance, usance, utilization, value
Main Entry: appointment
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: job, position of responsibility
Synonyms: appointee, assignment, berth, candidate, delegate, employment, nominee, office, officeholder, place, post, representative, situation, station, work
Main Entry: berth
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: position of responsibility
Synonyms: appointment, billet, capacity, connection, employment, job, living, office, place, post, profession, situation, spot
Main Entry: business
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: job, profession
Synonyms: bag*, biz, calling, career, craft, dodge*, employment, field, function, game, line, livelihood, métier, occupation, pursuit, racket, specialty, trade, vocation, what one is into, work
Notes: the industry is the movie business and the business is the television industry
Antonyms: avocation, recreation, unemployment
Main Entry: calling
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: chosen profession
Synonyms: art, business, career, craft, day gig, do*, dodge*, employment, gig, go*, handicraft, hang*, life's work, lifework, line, mission, métier, nine-to-five, occupation, play, province, pursuit, racket, rat race, slot, swindle*, trade, vocation, walk of life, work
Antonyms: amusement, avocation, entertainment, hobby, recreation
Main Entry: career
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: occupation
Synonyms: bag*, calling, course, dodge*, employment, field, game*, job, lifework, livelihood, number*, pilgrimage, profession, pursuit, racket, specialty, thing*, vocation, work
Notes: careen has a nautical origin and is a side-to-side trajectory while career is a headlong high-speed trajectory
Antonyms: amusement, avocation, entertainment, recreation
Main Entry: commission
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: task, duty
Synonyms: agency, appointment, authority, brevet, certificate, charge, consignment, delegation, deputation, diploma, embassy, employment, errand, function, instruction, legation, mandate, mission, obligation, office, permit, power of attorney, proxy, trust, warrant, work
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