Employment vs. Occupation — 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.

A job or profession

The act of employing.

The action, state, or period of occupying or being occupied by military force

The state of being employed.

The action of living in or using a building or other place

The work in which one is engaged; occupation.

For the sole use of the occupiers of the land concerned

An activity to which one devotes time.

An activity that serves as one's regular source of livelihood; a vocation.

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

An activity engaged in especially as a means of passing time; an avocation.

The act of employing

The act or process of holding or possessing a place.

A use, purpose

The state of being held or possessed.

The state of being employed

Invasion, conquest, and control of a nation or territory by foreign armed forces.

An activity to which one devotes time

The military government exercising control over an occupied nation or territory.

(economics) The number or percentage of people at work

An activity or task with which one occupies oneself; usually specifically the productive activity, service, trade, or craft for which one is regularly paid; a job.

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

The act, process or state of possessing a place.

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.

The control of a country or region by a hostile military and/or paramilitary force.

The state of being employed or having a job;

The act or process of occupying or taking possession; actual possession and control; the state of being occupied; a holding or keeping; tenure; use; as, the occupation of lands by a tenant.

The occupation for which you are paid;

That which occupies or engages the time and attention.

The act of giving someone a job

The principal business of one's life; the principal work by which one earns one's livelihood; vocation; employment; profession; calling; trade; avocation; as, these days many people continue to practice their occupation well into their seventies.

The act of using;

The principal activity in your life that you do to earn money;

The control of a country by military forces of a foreign power

Any activity that occupies a person's attention;

The act of occupying or taking possession of a building;

The period of time during which a place or position or nation is occupied;