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Meaning employ meaning

What does employ mean?
Definitions in simple English

employ Verb

— If you employ someone, you pay them to do a job. The tanning company currently employs over 240 people in Caledonia. She had been employed by the hospital as a nurse for only four months. — If you employ something, you use it. Various methods are employed to change the way it looks.

employ Noun

— If you have someone in your employ, you are paying them to do a job.

employ

— verb (= use, utilize, utilise, apply) put into service; make work or employ for a particular purpose or for its inherent or natural purpose use your head! we only use Spanish at home I can't use this tool Apply a magnetic field here This thinking was applied to many projects How do you utilize this tool? I apply this rule to get good results use the plastic bags to store the food He doesn't know how to use a computer — verb (= hire, engage) engage or hire for work They hired two new secretaries in the department How many people has she employed? — noun (= employment) the state of being employed or having a job they are looking for employment he was in the employ of the city

Synonyms employ synonyms

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employ English » English

use hire utilize engage apply make use of employment utilise operate make use work occupy manipulate spend ply exercise appoint wield turn to account take on take manage job appointment wear set require recruitment recruit purpose practice office occupation need have fee exploit exert deploy deal control busy adopt work hard utilization turn on treat take advantage of take advantage staff

Topics employ topics

What do people use employ to talk about?
Work and occupation Business organization

Work for someone
Work and occupation Work Method

Use

Conjugation employ conjugation

How do you conjugate employ?

employ · verb

Examples employ examples

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Simple sentences

The company wants to employ 20 people.
The company has decided to employ two new secretaries.
I will employ the girl, because she can speak French.
If he is proficient in English, I'll employ him.
If he could speak English, I would employ him right away.
They employ temporary workers.
Are they going to employ more people?
I can employ you in my company.
We will employ a man who can speak English.
However, like America, Japan is predominantly a middle-class, middle-income country, and so wives do not employ maids, but attend to everything themselves.
How many maids does that lady want to employ?
They have been in my employ for five years.

Movie subtitles

Within those there is a line in which none of them is to employ rebels.
It means there is no Lord anywhere who would be able to employ you.
And even if you disagree, that does little to change the fact that a policeman, in your employ, is wanted for murder.
A man in your employ is lying dead in our morgue.
Their families usually employ them as goat herds.
It certainly is, considering he was in your employ.
You will employ the hour in writing an essay on the book you were given to read during the holidays.
And that we may employ the happy time of leisure with grace and wisdom to the greater glory of thy son, our Lord.
There is such a man in your employ, isn't there?
Mr. vadas has been in the employ of Matuschek and Company for two years during which time he's been efficient as a stool pigeon, a troublemaker, and a rat.
Miss O'Shaughnessy is an operative in my employ since yesterday.
As an aid to the unemployment crisis, we do not employ married women.
You understand it is not our policy to employ married women?
Mr. Marlows dipsomania enabled us to introduce our nationals into his employ under the guise of workers and servants.
He obviously is in the employ of Flora's father, as is Jack Griffin, the Rains character.
Pedro, here is a caballero who would employ you.
There is such a man in your employ, isn't there? Yes, yes.
This was a clever trick on my part to show you the kind of man you employ as manager.
Have you been abroad in the employ of our government?
This aging debutante, Mr. Jefferson I retain in my employ only because she is the sole support of her two-headed brother.
I shall permit him to find me in the character of a murderous lascar once in his employ and whom I may add is still in jail.
If that doesn't give us what we need, we employ enhanced interrogation techniques.
Dr. Weeks took it upon himself to employ a wholly experimental method in surgery.
He is a thug in the employ of a Nazi agent, a man named Mueller, operating in Sofia.
As a matter of fact. I decided to employ a private investigator only today.
Dear God. One must employ knowledge and technique!
I employ a great many people.
Don Nacio Delator does not employ fugitives from the law.
Do you employ a charwoman?
Smiley was good enough to enter my employ the year before.

News and current affairs

Flooding their economies with liquidity, maintaining export-friendly exchange rates, and spending to employ workers directly and boost the supply of safe savings vehicles have made the Great Recession in East Asia less dire than it has been elsewhere.
Who, exactly, would the Treasury employ to figure all this out?
To boost the value of their shares, these shareholders backed the drive to reduce the global volume of the payroll and the number of workers that companies employ.
Township and village enterprises (TVEs)-which are owned by and employ mostly former peasants-had to rely on themselves to become the most dynamic and productive sources of China's economic growth.
Workers bargain for money wages, and a reduction in their money incomes might leave total demand too low to employ all those willing to work.
After a two-year investigation involving more than a dozen journalists, the Post concluded that no one knows how much US intelligence operations cost - or even how many people American intelligence agencies employ.
Before seeking or accepting help from the rest of Europe, countries should employ all available domestic resources.
But, even today, economists can provide no clear explanation of why the private sector could not find ways to employ the long-term unemployed in the near-decade from the winter of 1933 to full war mobilization.
Most developing nations have opened themselves significantly to foreign trade and no longer employ the most damaging policies of the past (such as quantitative restrictions on imports).
Likewise, the US must employ incentives as well as penalties - and not sequence its diplomacy so that a problem country must meet every requirement before it can receive meaningful benefits.
Central banks employ an army of experts to try to get it right, and other institutions are seldom so well resourced to present equally sophisticated counter-arguments.
There is no shame in this, and your financial success will reflect to a large degree your effectiveness in producing strong results for the firms that employ you.
These methods are, essentially, labor-saving devices - they make management of the animals easier and enable units with thousands or tens of thousands of animals to employ fewer and less skilled workers.
With Russia's economy faltering, Putin is finding it increasingly difficult to employ the second tool of power: payment.
But in practice, immigration is often not as beneficial as it could be, because the target country has a rigid wage structure that prevents the additional jobs needed to employ the immigrants from being created.
Yet these five industries combined employ only 14 million people out of a total labor force of 770 million and fewer people than they did a decade ago.
The big three state-owned banks have vast branch networks and employ hundreds of thousands of people.
While spearheaded by Beijing-based NGO's, the dam protests involve Chinese from all parts of the country, employ all means of communication, and engage the support of central government officials.
NEW DELHI - China has devised a novel strategy to relieve pressure on its overcrowded prisons: employ convicts as laborers on overseas projects in the developing world.
In a sense, this is hardly surprising. After all, the twenty-five member states of the European Union alone employ hundreds of ministers between them - and even more if junior ministers are included.
Modern, high-productivity industries have come to employ a smaller share of the economy's labor force, while informal and other low-productivity activities have expanded.
One lesson is to avoid premature collapse of import-competing industries that employ substantial numbers of people before sufficient employment opportunities have emerged in more productive industries.
Competitive currencies promote and protect modern tradable industries that employ a substantial share of the labor force.
Artificers are not employ'd;.
Presidents employ such language for good reason.
In England today, Indian curry houses employ more people than the iron and steel, coal and shipbuilding industries combined.
The old elites remain, locked inside their gated communities, fending off the poor, whom they have no incentive to empower, because plentiful cheap labor is so beneficial to those who employ it.
The goal would be to ensure that developing countries can employ the kind of trade and industrial policies needed to restructure and diversify their economies and set the stage for economic growth.
The NPR affirms the policy of extended nuclear deterrence, under which the US retains the option to employ nuclear weapons to defend its allies.

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