employing

Verb

employ (third-person singular simple present employs, present participle employing, simple past and past participle employed)

1. To retain (someone) as an employee.
   • Our company employs hundreds of people.
2. (rare) To provide (someone) with a new job; to hire.
   • Yesterday our local garage employed a new mechanic.
3. To use (someone or something) for a job or task.
   • The burglar employed a jemmy to get in.

   Synonyms:

   apply, use, utilize

4. To make busy; to preoccupy.
   • Let it not enter in your minde of loue: / Be merry, and imploy your chiefeſt thoughts / To courtſhip, and ſuch faire oſtents of loue / As ſhall conueniently become you there;c. 1596–1598 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Merchant of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward]...

   Synonyms:

   occupy, busy

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