jobs - vocab

Someone who is paid to work for someone else is an ...

• employer

• employee

• employment

• unemployed

A fixed amount of money agreed every year as pay for an employee.

• salary

• wage

• pension

• ransom

To remove someone from their job, esp. because they have done something wrong.

• quit

• fire

• sack

• dismiss

to make the same journey regularly between work and home

working a fixed number of hours but having flexibility with start and finish times

to stop working because of old age or ill health

the time worked in a job that is not normal hours

• retire

• flexitime

• overtime

• shift

formal way to say 'job'

• profession

• career

• occupation

• employment

a job position that is not filled and so is available

any type of work which needs special training or a particular skill, often which is respected because it involves a high level of education