employed
given employment, or paid work; hired, especially permanently by inclusion on a payroll: The comedy revolves around a beauty salon owner and her newly employed male stylist.
applied or used; made use of: In the study, drilling with flashcards was the least frequently employed strategy for language learning.
kept busy or engaged with some work or activity: I never feel usefully employed in science except when I'm actually gathering data.
(of time, energies, etc.) occupied; devoted to some pursuit: Working on my quilt gave me many happily employed hours.
the simple past tense and past participle of employ.
Origin of employed
1Other words from employed
- de-em·ployed, adjective
- well-em·ployed, adjective
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How to use employed in a sentence
Each turbine in a penstock represents the power of 5,000 horses, and there are now ten or more employed.
Inventions in the Century | William Henry DoolittleI should like to see leeboards more employed in this country.
Yachting Vol. 1 | Various.In the observations of chemistry the senses are still more employed, and experiment is of still more utility.
The test of my courage was once more employed to cover me with humiliation and remorse.
Arthur Mervyn | Charles Brockden BrownWhy are not night attacks more employed to-day, at least on a grand scale?
Battle Studies | Charles-Jean-Jacques-Joseph Ardant du Picq
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