| 单词 | employed |
| 释义 | employed (once / 96 pages) adj Someone who's employed has a job or is busy with something. Some people believe that employed teenagers get themselves in less trouble than those without jobs. If you're working, you're employed. Most employed people work traditional full-time jobs, although an increasing number of them are freelancers or have part-time positions. Another way to use this adjective is to mean "used," as when you say, "The employed methods for keeping the classroom calm seem a little extreme to me." The adjective employed comes from the related verb, employ, "use, apply, occupy, or hire." WORD FAMILYemployed: self-employed, underemployed, unemployed+/employ: employable, employed, employee, employer, employing, employment, employs/employable: employables, unemployable/employee: employees/employer: employers/employment: employments, unemployment/unemployment: unemployments USAGE EXAMPLESIt will not be easy for the gardeners employed by cities to turn to more sustainable methods. New York Times(Jan 02, 2017) The Indian Supreme Court employed this logic when it struck down the mandatory death sentence in the country’s penal code, in 1983. The New Yorker(Dec 31, 2016) Many of the workers protesting are employed by those companies, and they are paid as little as $6 an hour. Washington Post(Dec 29, 2016) 1adj having your services engaged for; or having a job especially one that pays wages or a salary most of our graduates are employed Syn|Ant busy actively or fully engaged or occupied engagedhaving services contracted for hiredhaving services engaged for a fee on the job, workingactively engaged in paid work unemployed not engaged in a gainful occupation idlenot in action or at work discharged, dismissed, fired, laid-off, pink-slippedhaving lost your job idle, jobless, out of worknot having a job 2adj put to use Syn exploited developed or used to greatest advantage |
| 随便看 |
英语词典包含147318条英英释义在线翻译词条，基本涵盖了全部常用单词的英英翻译及用法，是英语学习的有利工具。