Employ

What do we mean by employ?

To provide work to (someone) for pay. transitive verb

To engage the attention or activity of; occupy. transitive verb

To put (something) to use or service. transitive verb

To devote (time, for example) to an activity or purpose. transitive verb

The state of being employed. noun

An occupation. noun

To inclose; infold.

To give occupation to; make use of the time, attention, or labor of; keep busy or at work; use as an agent.

To make use of as an instrument or means; apply to any purpose: as, to employ medicines in curing diseases.

To occupy; use; apply or devote to an object; pass in occupation: as, to employ an hour, a day, or a week; to employ one's life.

Synonyms Employ, Hire. Hire and employ are words of different meaning. To hire is to engage in service for wages. The word does not imply dignity; it is not customary to speak of hiring a teacher or a pastor; we hire a man for wages; we employ him for wages or a salary. To employ is thus a word of wider signification. A man hired to labor is employed, but a man may be employed in a work who is not hired; yet the presumption is that the one employing pays. Employ expresses continuous occupation more often than hire does.

Occupation; employment. noun

To inclose; to infold. transitive verb

To use; to have in service; to cause to be engaged in doing something; -- often followed by in, about, on, or upon, and sometimes by to; as: (a) To make use of, as an instrument, a means, a material, etc., for a specific purpose; to apply transitive verb

To occupy; as, to employ time in study. transitive verb

To have or keep at work; to give employment or occupation to; to intrust with some duty or behest. transitive verb

To apply or devote one's time and attention; to busy one's self. transitive verb

That which engages or occupies a person; fixed or regular service or business; employment. noun

In one's service. noun

The state of being an employee; employment.

The act of employing someone or making use of something; employment.

Words that are spelled similarly to employ:
employ, emploi, remploy.

Words that are triggered by (strongly associated with) the word employ:
tactics, strategies, techniques, employs, methods, technique, employees, strategy, generate, staff.

Words that rhyme with employ:
boy, deploy, joy, coy, alloy, enjoy, destroy, ploy, annoy, decoy, toy, cloy, convoy, oy, troy, ahoy, oi, cowboy, tomboy, savoy, soy, corduroy, hoy, goy, carboy, hoi polloi, roy, roi, iroquois, stoy, choi, foy, illinois, croix, polloi, bellboy, choy, busboy, playboy, attaboy, hoi, moy, mccoy, leroy, oye, loy, yoy, doughboy, tolstoy, oie, doi, whipping boy, neu, foie, highboy, redeploy, elroy, bolshoi, schoolboy, sonny boy, cfroi, malloy, moye, lovejoy, lacroix, fitzroy, bok choy, rob roy, office boy, golden boy, helen of troy, toye, fauntleroy, poor boy, farm boy, express joy, mcelroy, ball boy, altar boy, croy, boye, errand boy, quemoy, old boy, laboy, monroy, cabin boy, pomeroy, bok choi, real mccoy, bat boy, sailor boy, kilroy, gilroy, woy, joye, delivery boy, jump for joy, teddy boy, city boy.

Adjectives that are often used to describe employ:
public, full, civil, own, private, constant, hard, regular, present, direct, permanent, latter, sweet, most, british, foreign, best, chinese, japanese, military, former, federal, firm, immediate, active, french, daily, divine, official, actual, better, future, english, chief, profitable, governmental, sole, time, longer, industrial, russian, european, sacred, royal, day, domestic, dutch, temporary, useful, principal, blest, steady, spanish, confidential, honourable, unknown, secret, sufficient, municipal, honest, laborious, continuous, persian, continual, secular, self, resistless, strictest.

Nouns that are often described by the adjective employ:
techniques, measures, methods, strategies, ability, people, personnel, ment, technology, procedures, staff, words, skills, tools, help, means, devices, consultants, language, principles, assistants, questions, agents, experts, analysis, engineers, data, materials, systems, interventions, assistance, gentleness, concepts, guesses, practices, workers, therapy, values, tactics, examples, counsel, knowledge, force, method, precautions, members, forces, symbols, control, activities, repetition, tests, leisure, aids, approaches, management, suction, officers, labor, humor, anesthesia, imagery, facilities, models, criteria, teachers, programs, theory, coercion, surprise, caution, suspension, drainage, terms, reason, structures, equipment, brainstorming, rules, eqs, heads, diagrams, schoolmistresses, variety, emissaries, software, others, equation, architects, supervision, technique, friction, amplification, checks.

Consonant match to employ:
imply, amply.

Words that sound like employ:
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