Meaning of employ | Babel Free

Definitions

1. To retain (someone) as an employee
2. The state of being an employee; employment.
3. To provide (someone) with a new job; to hire
4. An occupation.
   archaic
5. To use (someone or something) for a job or task
6. The act of employing someone or making use of something; employment.
   obsolete
7. To make busy; to preoccupy
8. The state of being an employee; employment

Equivalents

Examples

“The school district has six thousand teachers in its employ.”

“If Siamese in the employ of British subjects offend against the laws of their country,”

““And so you see, sir,” said I, “there is something to be said upon my side; and this gambling is a very poor employ for gentlefolks. But I am still waiting your opinion.””

“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.”

“Notwithstanding the employ of general and local bleeding, blisters, &c., the patient died on the fourth day after entrance.”

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