employ

verb · nounA2

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verb

V_es/s

employs

V_ing/Gerund

employing

V_ed/pp

employedimploy

1.
To retain (someone) as an employee.
Our company employs hundreds of people.
Andrew Houſtoun and Adam Muſhet, being Tackſmen of the Excize, did Imploy Thomas Rue to be their Collector, and gave him a Sallary of 30. pound Sterling for a year.
2.
(rare)To provide (someone) with a new job; to hire.
Yesterday our local garage employed a new mechanic.
3.
To use (someone or something) for a job or task.
The burglar employed a jemmy to get in.
Đồng nghĩa: apply, use, utilize
4.
To make busy; to preoccupy.
Đồng nghĩa: occupy, busy

Danh từ

noun

Plural noun:

employsimploy

1.
The state of being an employee; employment.
The school district has six thousand teachers in its employ.
2.
(archaic)An occupation.
3.
(obsolete)The act of employing someone or making use of something; employment.

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Đồng nghĩa

apply use utilize occupy busy hire

Cùng gốc / liên quan

nonemployingemploylessmalemployoveremploy preemployre-employemployeeemployer employment reemployemployableemployed unemploydisemploymisemployemploy a steam engine to crack a nutemployéimply implicate apply

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Nguồn gốc từ

L5510 ine-pro From late Middle English emploien, imploien, emplien (to apply to a specific purpose), from emploier, Old French emploiier (to entangle, fabricate, to make use of), ultimately from Latin implicāre (to infold, entangle, involve, engage), from in- (in) + plicāre (to fold). imply implicate.