employ

employ
verb
1 pay sb to work
ADVERB
▪ actively, directly
▪

By 1960 the arms industry directly employed 3.5 million people.

▪ indirectly
▪ currently
▪

Mark is currently employed as a Professor of Linguistics.

PREPOSITION
▪ in
▪

A large part of the workforce is employed in agriculture.

PHRASES
▪ be fully employed
▪ be gainfully employed
▪

Those not gainfully employed are dependent on their savings.

▪ be permanently employed, be temporarily employed
▪ be irregularly employed, be regularly employed
2 use
ADVERB
▪ commonly, extensively, frequently, often, regularly, widely
▪

The safety net is an image commonly employed in everyday life.

▪ generally, primarily, routinely, typically, usually
▪ increasingly
▪

Self-checkout terminals are increasingly employed by retailers.

▪ effectively, successfully, usefully
▪ properly
▪

When properly employed, non-lethal weapons will save lives.

3 be employed be busy doing sth
ADVERB
▪ better
▪

Your time would be better employed doing something else.

▪ busily, usefully
PREPOSITION
▪ in
▪

Will and Joe were busily employed in clearing out all the furniture.

Employ is used with these nouns as the subject: ↑college, ↑firm, ↑method, ↑workshop
Employ is used with these nouns as the object: ↑agent, ↑approach, ↑architect, ↑army, ↑assistant, ↑consultant, ↑contractor, ↑crew, ↑design, ↑employee, ↑firm, ↑force, ↑imagery, ↑immigrant, ↑labourer, ↑measure, ↑mercenary, ↑metaphor, ↑method, ↑phrase, ↑practice, ↑procedure, ↑reasoning, ↑rhetoric, ↑servant, ↑staff, ↑strategy, ↑tactic, ↑tank, ↑technique, ↑technology, ↑trainee, ↑trick, ↑tutor, ↑violence, ↑worker, ↑workforce

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  • employ — Employ. s. m. v. L usage qu on fait de quelque chose. Faire un bon employ, un mauvais employ de son argent, de son temps. il n a pû faire voir l employ de l argent qu il a touché. il faut faire apparoistre de l employ des deniers. quittance d… …   Dictionnaire de l'Académie française

  • employ — em‧ploy [ɪmˈplɔɪ] verb [transitive] HUMAN RESOURCES to pay someone to work for you: • The company employs 2000 people worldwide. employ somebody as something • He is employed as a baggage handler at the airport. employ somebody to do something …   Financial and business terms

  • Employ — Em*ploy , v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Employed}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Employing}.] [F. employer, fr. L. implicare to fold into, infold, involve, implicate, engage; in + plicare to fold. See {Ply}, and cf. {Imply}, {Implicate}.] 1. To inclose; to infold.… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • Employ — Em*ploy , n. [Cf. F. emploi.] That which engages or occupies a person; fixed or regular service or business; employment. [1913 Webster] The whole employ of body and of mind. Pope. [1913 Webster] {In one s employ}, in one s service. [1913 Webster] …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • employ — I (engage services) verb add to the payroll, appoint, assign, authorize, commission, contract, delegate, detineri, empower, engage, enlist, enroll, entrust with a task, entrust with management, fill a position, fill a vacancy, fill an opening,… …   Law dictionary

  • employ — ► VERB 1) give work to (someone) and pay them for it. 2) make use of. 3) keep occupied. ● in the employ of Cf. ↑in the employ of DERIVATIVES employability noun …   English terms dictionary

  • employ — [v1] make use of apply, bestow, bring to bear*, engage, exercise, exert, exploit, fill, handle, keep busy*, manipulate, occupy, operate, put to use*, spend, take up*, use, use up*, utilize; concept 225 Ant. ignore, misuse, shun, unemploy employ… …   New thesaurus

  • employ — [em ploi′, imploi′] vt. [ME emploien < OFr emploier < L implicare, to enfold, engage: see IMPLY] 1. to make use of; use 2. to keep busy or occupied; take up the attention, time, etc. of; devote [to employ oneself in study] 3. to provide… …   English World dictionary

  • Employ'e — Em ploy [ e] , n. [F., p. p. of employer.] One employed by another; a clerk or workman in the service of an employer. [1913 Webster] …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • employ — (v.) early 15c., from M.Fr. employer, from O.Fr. emploiier (12c.) make use of, apply; increase; entangle; devote, from L. implicare enfold, involve, be connected with, from in (see IN (Cf. in ) (2)) + plicare to fold (see PLY (Cf. ply) (v.)).… …   Etymology dictionary

  • employ — vb *use, utilize, apply, avail Analogous words: *practice, exercise, drill: engross, absorb, *monopolize: *choose, select, pick …   New Dictionary of Synonyms

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