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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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