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REEMPLOY

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em⋅ploy

  [em-ploi]
Use REEMPLOY in a Sentence
–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.
Origin:
1425–75; late ME employen < AF, MF emploier ≪ L implicāre to enfold (LL: to engage); see implicate
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Word Origin & History

employ 
c.1460, 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 Eng. 1584, from "involve in a particular purpose." Imply, which is the same word, retains more of the original sense. Employee (mainly U.S.) is attested from 1850, from Fr. employé (fem. employeé), pp. of employer.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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