who is got wordreference, has got a thesaurus: job -work -employment

• JOB. Sense1: Gainful employment
• • situation + 
  • post + 
  • position + 
  • appointment + 
  • work + 
  • occupation + 
  • employment  +
  • business + 
  • profession + 
  • trade 
  • paying job + 
  • place  +
  •  
  • role
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    Sense2: Something to be done
• • task  
  • assignment  
  • chore  
  • business   
  • enterprise  
  •  
  • project   
  • charge  
  • work  
  • labor
  • 
    Sense3: amount of work done
• • assignment   + 
  • day's work

EMPLOYMENT

 

Sense: An occupation

• job + 
• profession + 

• vocation + 
• trade + 
 business

• work + 
• occupation + 
 

• position + 
• post + 
 

 
• labor (US) 
• labour (UK) + 
• the 9 to 5 (colloquial) + 
 

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• freelancing + 
• self-employment

WORK (in this Sense:

 To be employed = 6 phrases)

• earn one's living + 
 
• earn a living + 

• have a job
 
• hold a position + 
 
• occupy a post + 
 
• be off the dole + 
 
• have a position

UNEMPLOYMENT

• As you hear "He's between jobs" -an optimistic view of our current crisis-, consider the following words. Read the 14 words aloud (all the words mean "Unused or inactive":  
  • unoccupied  = unemployed
  jobless = workless  = laid-off (informal)
  • still  = 
  • motionless  =  
  • inert
  • out of action = 
  • not in operation = 
  • out of a job
  • That's not all: see other uses of zero affixation at this entry
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