employ
IPA: ɛmpɫˈɔɪ
noun
- The state of being an employee; employment.
- (archaic) An occupation.
- (obsolete) The act of employing someone or making use of something; employment.
verb
- To retain (someone) as an employee.
- (rare) To provide (someone) with a new job; to hire.
- To use (someone or something) for a job or task.
- To make busy; to preoccupy.
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Examples of "employ" in Sentences
- The men are employed as hirelings.
- The term is not employed maliciously.
- The lab staff wanted to employ new workers.
- The devil is in the details, to employ an idiom.
- An electromagnet is employed to move the armature.
- Most of the populations are employed in agriculture.
- Many of the inhabitants are employed in the fisheries.
- The clerics definitely are in the employ of the state.
- The boss of the company wanted to employ an allegiant worker candidate.
- The ceramic units employ several thousand unskilled workers in the region.
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