Employment vs. Hire — What's the Difference?

Employment is a relationship between two parties, usually based on a contract where work is paid for, where one party, which may be a corporation, for profit, not-for-profit organization, co-operative or other entity is the employer and the other is the employee. Employees work in return for payment, which may be in the form of an hourly wage, by piecework or an annual salary, depending on the type of work an employee does or which sector they are working in.

Obtain the temporary use of (something) for an agreed payment

The act of employing.

Employ (someone) for wages

The state of being employed.

The action of hiring someone or something

The work in which one is engaged; occupation.

A person who is hired; an employee

An activity to which one devotes time.

To engage the services of (a person) for a fee; employ

The work or occupation for which one is used, and often paid

To engage the temporary use of for a fee; rent

The act of employing

To grant the services of or the temporary use of for a fee

A use, purpose

To obtain work

The state of being employed

The act of hiring.

An activity to which one devotes time

The condition or fact of being hired.

(economics) The number or percentage of people at work

Payment for services; wages.

The act of employing or using; also, the state of being employed.

Payment for the use of something.

That which engages or occupies; that which consumes time or attention; office or post of business; service; as, agricultural employments; mechanical employments; public employments; in the employment of government.

(Informal) One who is hired

The state of being employed or having a job;

Payment for the temporary use of something.

The occupation for which you are paid;

(obsolete) Reward, payment.

The act of giving someone a job

The state of being hired, or having a job; employment.

The act of using;

A person who has been hired, especially in a cohort.

(transitive) To obtain the services of in return for fixed payment.

(transitive) To employ; to obtain the services of (a person) in exchange for remuneration; to give someone a job.

(transitive) To exchange the services of for remuneration.

(transitive) To accomplish by paying for services.

(intransitive) To accept employment.

(transitive) (neologism) (in the Jobs-to-be-Done Theory) To buy something in order for it to perform a function, to do a job

The price, reward, or compensation paid, or contracted to be paid, for the temporary use of a thing or a place, for personal service, or for labor; wages; rent; pay.

A bailment by which the use of a thing, or the services and labor of a person, are contracted for at a certain price or reward.

To procure (any chattel or estate) from another person, for temporary use, for a compensation or equivalent; to purchase the use or enjoyment of for a limited time; as, to hire a farm for a year; to hire money.

To engage or purchase the service, labor, or interest of (any one) for a specific purpose, by payment of wages; as, to hire a servant, an agent, or an advocate.

To grant the temporary use of, for compensation; to engage to give the service of, for a price; to let; to lease; - now usually with out, and often reflexively; as, he has hired out his horse, or his time.

Engage or hire for work;

Hold under a lease or rental agreement; of goods and services

Engage for service under a term of contract;