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.
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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
To devote (time, for example) to an activity or purpose: employed several months in learning Swahili.
n.
The state of being employed: in the employ of the city.
Archaic Occupation.
[Middle English emploien, from Old French emploier, from Latin implicāre, to involve : in-, in; see en-1 + plicāre, to fold; see plek- in Indo-European roots.] em·ploy'a·bil'i·ty n., em·ploy'a·ble adj., em·ploy'er n.
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