Similar words: unemployed, self-employed, underemployed, return on capital employed, employee, employer, employee compensation, employ. Meaning: [ɪm'plɔɪ] 
adj. 1. having your services engaged for; or having a job especially one that pays wages or a salary 2. put to use.
adj. 1. having your services engaged for; or having a job especially one that pays wages or a salary 2. put to use. 
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1 Lose not time; be always employed in something useful; cut off all unnecessary actions. 
2 She was employed in a bank.
3 We employed a lawyer to straighten our legal tangle.
4 He employed himself in English grammar.
5 The ranch employed ten or twelve cowboys.
6 He was employed to chuck out any troublemakers.
7 They employed the girl for that job.
8 He employed a detective to shadow his wife.
9 A number of people have been employed to deal with the backlog of work.
10 I have been employed at this job for five years.
11 He employed a scorched-earth policy, destroying villages and burning crops.
12 Male nurses are often employed in hospitals for the mentally ill.
13 By 1960 the arms industry in America directly employed 3.5 million people.
14 You will be employed to assist in the development of new equipment.
15 For the past three years he has been employed as a firefighter.
16 The woman secretaries should be employed for their ability not for their looks.
17 She is employed by the president in an advisory capacity.
18 You would be better employed tidying your room.
19 He's employed on the oil rigs.
20 The methods employed are old-fashioned and uneconomical.
21 Kelly is employed as a mechanic.
22 Instead of wasting time, she employed herself in reading.
23 He employed himself for teaching English.
24 He was busily employed in lacing up his shoes.
25 He employed his knife as a lever.
26 Those not gainfully employed are dependent on their savings.
27 They employed me as an adviser.
28 The ivory industry employed about a thousand carvers.
29 It's impossible to evaluate these results without knowing more about the research methods employed.
30 Only those who constantly retool themselves stand a chance of staying employed in the years ahead.
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