Employ

/ɪmˈplɔɪ/ · verb

Meaning

To retain (someone) as an employee..

Definitions by Sense

1. To retain (someone) as an employee.
2. (rare) To provide (someone) with a new job; to hire.
3. To use (someone or something) for a job or task.
4. To make busy; to preoccupy.
5. The state of being an employee; employment.
6. (archaic) An occupation.
7. (obsolete) The act of employing someone or making use of something; employment.

Example Sentences

Our company employs hundreds of people.

Andrew Houſtoun and Adam Muſhet, being Tackſmen of the Excize, did Imploy Thomas Rue to be their Collector, and gave him a Sallary of 30. pound Sterling for a year.

Charles had not been employed above six months at Darracott Place, but he was not such a whopstraw as to make the least noise in the performance of his duties when his lordship was out of humour.

The site—which was established in its current form in 2009—employs 60 people and says it gets 12 million visitors a month.

Yesterday our local garage employed a new mechanic.

The management, who were close personal friends, had just employed a new chef.

The burglar employed a jemmy to get in.

Valiant Othello, we muſt straight employ you, / Againſt the generall Enemy Ottoman.

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Word Forms

• employs
• employing
• employed
• imploy

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