employ
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[edit] English
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- imploy (obsolete)
[edit] Etymology
From Middle French employer, from Latin implicare (“to infold, involve, engage”), from in (“in”) + plicare (“to fold”).
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[edit] Noun
employ (plural employs)
- The state of being an employee; employment.
- The school district has six thousand teachers in its employ.
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employ (third-person singular simple present employs, present participle employing, simple past and past participle employed)
- To give someone work or a job.
- 1668 July 3ʳᵈ, James Dalrymple, “Thomas Rue contra Andrew Houſtoun” in The Deciſions of the Lords of Council & Seſſion I (Edinburgh, 1683), page 547
- 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.
- 1668 July 3ʳᵈ, James Dalrymple, “Thomas Rue contra Andrew Houſtoun” in The Deciſions of the Lords of Council & Seſſion I (Edinburgh, 1683), page 547
- To put something into use or service; to make use of.
- How do you employ your spare time?
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to give someone work
to put into use
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[edit] External links
- employ in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
- employ in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911
- employ at OneLook Dictionary Search
