Sekirov Dictionary

employ

/ɪmˈplɔɪ/

verb 4
noun 3
forms 6

verb4

•
To retain (someone) as an employee.
- Our company employs hundreds of people.
•
To provide (someone) with a new job; to hire.
- Yesterday our local garage employed a new mechanic.
•
To use (someone or something) for a job or task.
- The burglar employed a jemmy to get in.
•
To make busy; to preoccupy.
- Let it not enter in your minde of loue: / Be merry, and imploy your chiefest thoughts / To courtship, and such faire ostents of loue / As shall conueniently become you there — 1596

noun3

•
The state of being an employee; employment.
- The school district has six thousand teachers in its employ.
•
(no longer used) An occupation.
- Still he wrote on. He was too much engrossed in his own charmed employ not to be insensible for a time to all external influences: he might suffer afterwards, but now his mind was his kingdom. — 1837
•
(no longer used) The act of employing someone or making use of something; employment.
- Notwithstanding the employ of general and local bleeding, blisters, &c., the patient died on the fourth day after entrance. — 1833

forms

employ'd · employed · employing · employeth · employs · employest

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