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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