What are the opposite words for employment?
Employment is the state of having a job or being employed. The antonyms for the term employment are unemployment and joblessness. Unemployment means lack of employment or not having a job, while joblessness refers to the state of being without work or not being employed. These terms are often used interchangeably, but they have slightly different connotations. While unemployment conveys a sense of struggle and hardship, joblessness is a more neutral term that simply describes a lack of work. Other antonyms for employment include idleness, leisure, and inactivity. These terms describe a state of not working and are often associated with negative connotations, such as laziness or lack of motivation.
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- disuse
- acquittal
- dismissal
- rest
- discharge
- leisure
- expulsion
- inaction
- inactivity
- ease
- ouster
- release
- deposition
- ejection
- idleness
- naturalness
- respite
- declaration removing blame
- unceremoniousness
- dethroning, ousting
- setting free
- state of non-use
- layoff
- peace, quiet; lack of difficulty
- working for a living;
- using something
- laziness, inaction
- dismissal from job or responsibility
- pause, suspension in activity
- unrestraint
- Other relevant words
- disuse
- acquittal
-
dismissal
- dislodgment,
- relegation,
- Deposal,
- housecleaning,
- Freedoms,
- kiss off,
- brushoff,
- brush offs,
- brush-off,
- brush-offs,
- brushoffs,
- deposals,
- dis lodgment,
- dis lodgments,
- dis missal,
- dis missals,
- dis possession,
- dis possessions,
- dis solution,
- dis solutions,
- dis-lodgment,
- dis-lodgments,
- dis-missal,
- dis-missals,
- dis-possession,
- dis-possessions,
- dis-solution,
- dis-solutions,
- dislodgments,
- ex patriations,
- ex-patriation,
- ex-patriations,
- housecleanings,
- kiss offs,
- kiss-off,
- kiss-offs,
- kissoff,
- kissoffs,
- old heave-ho,
- old heave-hos,
- old heaveho,
- old heavehos,
- re legation,
- re legations,
- re-legation,
- re-legations,
- relegations.
- rest
-
discharge
- conge,
- demobilization,
- exudation,
- remittance,
- suppuration,
- Remittances,
- exudations,
- firings,
- unburdening,
- the boot,
- bum rush,
- bums rush,
- conges,
- de mobilization,
- de mobilizations,
- de-mobilization,
- de-mobilizations,
- demobilizations,
- dis burdening,
- dis charge,
- dis charges,
- dis imprisonment,
- dis imprisonments,
- dis-burdening,
- dis-charge,
- dis-charges,
- dis-imprisonment,
- dis-imprisonments,
- disburdenings,
- disimprisonment,
- disimprisonments,
- emptyings,
- ex plosion,
- ex plosions,
- ex-plosion,
- old heave ho,
- old heave hos,
- suppurations,
- the boots,
- the door,
- the doors,
- un burdening,
- un lading,
- un ladings,
- un-burdening,
- un-lading,
- un-ladings,
- unburdenings,
- unladings,
- voidings.
-
leisure
- leisure,
- re-creation,
- spare time,
- idle hours,
- vacant hour,
- idle hour,
- inter missions,
- leave absence,
- one own sweet time,
- one own sweet times,
- one sweet time,
- one sweet times,
- one's own sweet time,
- one's own sweet times,
- one's sweet time,
- one's sweet times,
- ones own sweet time,
- ones own sweet times,
- re cesses,
- re creation,
- re creations,
- re-cess,
- re-creations,
- spare moment,
- spare moments,
- spare times,
- vacant hours.
- expulsion
- inaction
- inactivity
- ease
- ouster
- release
-
deposition
- impeachment,
- unfrocking,
- de gradation,
- de gradations,
- de position,
- de positions,
- de-gradation,
- de-gradations,
- de-position,
- de-positions,
- dis placement,
- dis placements,
- dis-placement,
- dis-placements,
- impeachments,
- over throw,
- over throws,
- over-throw,
- over-throws,
- un frocking,
- un-frocking,
- unfrockings.
- ejection
-
idleness
- hibernation,
- unemployment,
- Otiosity,
- Pottering,
- Hibernations,
- joblessness,
- dawdlings,
- dilly dallyings,
- dilly-dallyings,
- dillydallyings,
- dronings,
- goof off time,
- goof off times,
- goof-off time,
- goof-off times,
- goofoff time,
- goofoff times,
- joblessnesses,
- lazings,
- loafings,
- loiterings,
- otiosities,
- own sweet time,
- own sweet times,
- potterings,
- time burn,
- time hand,
- time hands,
- time kill,
- time on hand,
- time on hands,
- time on one hand,
- time on one's hand,
- time on one's hands,
- time on ones hand,
- time on ones hands,
- time one hand,
- time one hands,
- time one's hands,
- time ones hands,
- time to kill,
- time wasting,
- time wastings,
- time-wasting,
- time-wastings,
- timewasting,
- timewastings,
- triflings,
- un employment,
- un employments,
- un-employment,
- un-employments,
- unemployments,
- vegetatings.
- naturalness
- respite
- declaration removing blame
- unceremoniousness
- dethroning, ousting
- setting free
- state of non-use
- layoff
-
peace, quiet; lack of difficulty
- ease.
- working for a living;
- using something
- laziness, inaction
- dismissal from job or responsibility
- pause, suspension in activity
- unrestraint
- Other relevant words
Antonym of the day
leading the way
- Antonyms:
- abandon, follow, misguide.
