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verb (used with object)
1.
to hire or engage the services of (a person or persons); provide employment for; have or keep in one's service: This factory employs thousands of people.
2.
to keep busy or at work; engage the attentions of: He employs himself by reading after work.
3.
to make use of (an instrument, means, etc.); use; apply: to employ a hammer to drive a nail.
4.
to occupy or devote (time, energies, etc.): I employ my spare time in reading. I employ all my energies in writing.
noun
5.
employment; service: to be in someone's employ.
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Origin:
1425–75; late Middle English employen < Anglo-French, Middle French emploier ≪ Latin implicāre to enfold (Late Latin: to engage); see implicate
1425–75; late Middle English employen < Anglo-French, Middle French emploier ≪ Latin implicāre to enfold (Late Latin: to engage); see implicate
Related forms
de-em·ployed, adjective
non·em·ploy·ing, adjective
o·ver·em·ploy, verb (used with object)
pre·em·ploy, verb (used with object)
re·em·ploy, verb (used with object)
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employ (ɪmˈplɔɪ) ![[Click for IPA pronunciation guide]](http://static.sfdict.com/dictstatic/g/d/dictionary_questionbutton_default.gif) | |
| —vb | |
| 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: collecting stamps employs a lot of his time |
| 3. | to use as a means: to employ secret measures to get one's ends |
| —n | |
| 4. | the state of being employed (esp in the phrase in someone's employ) |
| [C15: from Old French emploier, from Latin implicāre to entangle, engage, from plicāre to fold] | |
| employable | |
| —adj | |
| employability | |
| —n | |
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Word Origin & History
employ
mid-15c., from M.Fr. employer, from O.Fr. empleier, from L. implicare "enfold, involve, be connected with," from in- "in" + plicare "to fold" see ply (v.)). Sense of "hire, engage" first recorded in English 1580s, from "involve in a particular purpose."
Imply, which is the same word, retains more of the original sense.
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Example sentences
Most development offices employ professionals whose jobs do not directly involve raising money.
Morticians employ fillers to restore a corpse's shape, and when they're done you cannot tell that an autopsy has been performed.
The cranes will also employ radioactivity monitors as well as cameras to help remotely operate the tools.
It is true that more and more online journals are claiming to employ a peer-review process.
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