[em-ploi] 
| 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. |
| 5. | employment; service: to be in someone's employ. |
