Bill Mascull – Student’s Usage, HarperCollins Publishers, 1996, p.

242-244

job
employment position
post work occupation
profession trade
business task
 Work
• verb – involves a job – paid for:
I work for Barclays Bank and I’m a secretary.

• followed by as: She works as a doctor in L. A.

• noun – uncount.: What kind of work did you have in Memphis?

• to be in work – to have a job: Do you think you’ve gained anything by coming to the
university, given that you’d actually been in work?

• to be out of work – unemployed: At the time of his death, he was out of work.

• Ø work – no determiner: They all travel to Ø work by bus.

• works - “factory“: We’ve closed the steel works down.

 employment
• similar meaning – "slujbă, serviciu"
• more formal
• uncount. (no pl.)
• Do you own a car? Will you accept employment outside San Francisco?

• also used to talk about the number of people in a country or area who
have jobs
”(rata de) angajare a forței de muncă”
• Employment at Southwestern Bell dropped from 71,900 to 67,085.

• see also unemployment – ”șomaj; șomeri”

 job

• meaning: set of duties assigned to sb. who is paid for that

• also: one particular thing that needs to be done

• form: count noun

• Most people who lose their job find a new one quite quickly.

• common phrases: to apply (for a job)

 position & post

• meaning: job that is advertised

• the type of job that one has
• synonyms of job
• He wanted to get back to his chosen form of work as soon as a position could
be found
• People at that period had a terrible time getting teaching posts.
• usage: formal English
• often used in on official forms
 occupation

• meaning: the type of job (one has)

• usage: on official forms
• occupations: student, unemployed, retired, etc.
• You have to ask yourself what you want from your occupation. Do you want a
job, a career or a lifestyle?
 profession & trade
• meaning: types of job which require special training
• profession – type of job which requires formal training and which has (fairly)
high status (doctor, lawyer) → white collar workers
– all the people in a particular profession: the medical profession
• We called for positive steps to ensure more women enter the legal
profession.

• trade – type of skilled job, usually one which involves making or repairing sth.
(→ meserie) → blue collar workers
• Bert has worked for 25 years in the building trade.
– type of work that involves buying and selling things, or to imports
and exports between countries. (→ comerț)
• We live by international trade.
 business

• meaning: work that involves making, buying and selling things

→ ”entrepreneurship”
• The restaurant business is a tough one.
 job – a different meaning
piece of work & task

• job and piece of work: a particular thing that needs to be

done
• task: a particular thing that needs to be done and that is
difficult or unpleasant

• I know that you can do a better piece of work than that.

• She found even the daily tasks like shopping and washing
impossible.
• I’m sorry you didn’t leave me more ironing. It’s a nice job because
you can stop and start again.
business job position trade employment occupation professions task

1. …the difficult ………of teaching reading to the deaf.

2. British Steel said it would work with local organisations to provide ………in
the area.
3. Germany regards the ………..of teaching and engineering so much more
highly than we do.
4. I hate business lunches. Lunch I love and ………I love, but not at the same
time.
5. I used to work in the building ……….doing flooring.
6. Randle was told last week that he is to lose both his ………..and his home.
7. Sara Sankey: height 5ft 7 in. …………: housewife; European semi-finalist 1992.
8. When I applied for a …………….as a prison officer, I was not even interviewed.