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employ

(ɪmplɔɪ)
Word forms: 3rd person singular presenttense employs, present participle employing, past tense, past participle employed
1. verb
If a person or company employs you, they pay you to work for them.
The company employs 18 staff. [VERB noun]
More than 3,000 local workers are employed in the tourism industry. [be VERB-ed + in]
Her first husband had been employed in a chemicals company. [VERB-ed]
[Also VERB noun to-infinitive]
Synonyms: hire, commission, appoint, take on More Synonyms of employ
2. verb
If you employ certain methods, materials, or expressions, you use them.
The tactics the police are now to employ are definitely uncompromising. [VERB noun]
...the vocabulary that she employs. [VERB noun]
...the approaches and methods employed in the study. [VERB-ed]
[Also VERB noun + as]
Synonyms: use, apply, exercise, exert More Synonyms of employ
3. verb [usually passive]
If your time is employed in doing something, you are using the time you have to do that thing.
Your time could be usefully employed in attending to professional matters. [be VERB-ed + in]
The journalists would be better employed in explaining how the costs can be justified. [beV-ed in -ing/n]
Synonyms: spend, fill, occupy, involve More Synonyms of employ
4. 
See in the employ of sb/sth

employ in British English

(ɪmˈplɔɪ)
verb (transitive)
1. 
to engage or make use of the services of (a person) in return for money; hire
2. 
to provide work or occupation for; keep busy; occupy
violin practice employs a lot of her time
3. 
to use as a means
to employ secret measures to get one's ends
noun
4. 
the state of being employed (esp in the phrase in someone's employ)
Derived forms
employable (emˈployable)
adjective
employability (emˌployaˈbility)
noun
Word origin
C15: from Old French emploier, from Latin implicāre to entangle, engage, from plicāre to fold

employ in American English

(ɛmˈplɔɪ; ɪmˈplɔɪ)
verb transitive
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 work and pay for
mining employs fewer men now
4. 
to engage the services or labor of for pay; hire
noun
5. 
the state of being employed, esp. for pay; paid service; employment
6.  Archaic
work or occupation
SIMILAR WORDS:  use
Word origin
ME emploien < OFr emploier < L implicare, to enfold, engage: see imply

Examples of 'employ' in a sentence
employ

We now employ 10 staff and our turnover has doubled over the past two or three years.
Times, Sunday Times (2016)
The restaurant alone employs about 50 young locals.
Times, Sunday Times (2016)
The company employs a range of engineers, architects and project managers.
Times, Sunday Times (2016)
The company employs 750 people in the region.
Times, Sunday Times (2017)
That's because active funds employ people whereas passive funds instead use computer programmes to track the performance of an index.
Times, Sunday Times (2016)
It employs about 50 staff.
Times, Sunday Times (2016)
They had the smug and exhausted look of the still employed.
Times, Sunday Times (2008)
The government employs experts to monitor it.
Times, Sunday Times (2010)
The company recommends employing a specialist firm to manage website security.
Times, Sunday Times (2008)
We work from home and employ others who work from home.
Times, Sunday Times (2011)
We employ one person whose sole job is to look after accommodation.
The Sun (2016)
He employed similar tactics to help other victims of official misconduct.
Christianity Today (2000)
It is often a curse in politics to live in interesting times or to employ interesting people.
Times, Sunday Times (2014)
When you employ people you get to know not only the person but their life as well.
Times, Sunday Times (2010)
He did not initially receive royalties because he was employed by the government.
Times, Sunday Times (2014)
The policy covers persons employed by the club who have an accident while carrying out their duties.
Aiken, Nick Working with Teenagers (1994)
It is the people we employ who will get us through.
Times, Sunday Times (2008)
How grossly did you abuse their trust and the trust of those who employed you and worked with you?
Times, Sunday Times (2009)
The remaining stores employ about 3,700 staff.
Times, Sunday Times (2011)
At the moment we employ about 80 people offshore and onshore.
Times, Sunday Times (2007)
The company employs 60,000 people in the country.
Times, Sunday Times (2013)
We now employ in excess of 33,000 people worldwide and the numbers are rising.
Thompson, Sir Peter Sharing the Success - the story of NFC (1990)
They should be employed by the Government and paid extra.
The Sun (2013)
For example, how do you measure the quality of the staff employed by the company?
Harrison, John Finance for the Non-Financial Manager (1989)
These mills employ about another 2,100.
Times, Sunday Times (2016)
The politician, though, who enters into that line of work is employed as an entertainer.
Times, Sunday Times (2009)

In other languages
employ

British English: employ /ɪmˈplɔɪ/ VERB
If a person or company employs you, they pay you to work for them.
3,000 local workers are employed in the tourism industry.
  • American English: employ
  • Arabic: يُوَظِّفُ
  • Brazilian Portuguese: empregar
  • Chinese: 雇用
  • Croatian: zaposliti
  • Czech: zaměstnat
  • Danish: ansætte
  • Dutch: in dienst nemen
  • European Spanish: emplear
  • Finnish: palkata
  • French: employer
  • German: beschäftigen
  • Greek: προσλαμβάνω
  • Italian: impiegare
  • Japanese: 雇用する
  • Korean: 고용하다
  • Norwegian: ansette
  • Polish: zatrudnić
  • European Portuguese: empregar
  • Romanian: a angaja
  • Russian: нанимать
  • Latin American Spanish: emplear
  • Swedish: anställa rekrytera
  • Thai: ว่าจ้าง
  • Turkish: işe almak
  • Ukrainian: наймати
  • Vietnamese: thuê người

Chinese translation of 'employ'

employ

(ɪmˈplɔɪ)

vt

  1. [person, workforce] 雇(僱)用 (gùyòng)
  2. (= use) [methods, materials] 使用 (shǐyòng)

n

  1. to be in sb's employ (frm) 受雇(僱)于(於)某人 (shòugù yú mǒurén)
he was employed as a technician 他受雇(僱)做技师(師) (tā shòugù zuò jìshī)
1 (verb) 
Definition
to hire (someone) to do work in return for money
The company employs 18 staff.
Synonyms
hire
hired on short-term contracts
commission
You can commission them to paint something especially for you.
appoint
take on
retain
engage
We have been able to engage some staff.
recruit
He had the forlorn job of trying to recruit soldiers.
sign up
He signed up as a steward.
enlist
Three thousand men were enlisted.
enrol
I thought I'd enrol you with an art group at the school.
have on the payroll
2 (verb) 
Definition
to use as a means
the approaches and methods we employed in this study
Synonyms
use
Officials used loud-hailers to call for calm.
apply
The government appears to be applying the same principle.
exercise
They are merely exercising their right to free speech.
exert
He exerted all his considerable charm to get the board to agree.
make use of
utilize
Sound engineers utilize a range of techniques.
ply
With startling efficiency, the chef plied his knives.
bring to bear
put to use
bring into play
avail yourself of
3 (verb) 
Definition
to keep busy or occupy
Your time could be usefully employed in attending to business matters.
Synonyms
spend
This energy could be much better spent taking some positive action.
fill
a widowed father struggling to fill the role of both parents
occupy
I had other matters to occupy me that day.
involve
engage
She tried to engage me in conversation.
take up
make use of
use up

phrase

See in the employ of or in someone's employ

Additional synonyms

in the sense of apply
Definition
to put to practical use
The government appears to be applying the same principle.
Synonyms
use,
exercise,
carry out,
employ,
engage,
implement,
practise,
execute,
assign,
administer,
exert,
enact,
utilize,
bring to bear,
put to use,
bring into play
in the sense of commission
Definition
to place an order for
You can commission them to paint something especially for you.
Synonyms
appoint,
order,
contract,
select,
engage,
delegate,
nominate,
authorize,
empower,
depute
in the sense of engage
Definition
to employ (someone) to do something
We have been able to engage some staff.
Synonyms
employ,
commission,
appoint,
take on,
hire,
retain,
recruit,
enlist,
enrol,
put on the payroll

Synonyms of 'employ'

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