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re-employ

re-employ is the alternative form of reemploy.

Meaning of reemploy

Verb

reemploy (third-person singular simple present reemploys, present participle reemploying, simple past and past participle reemployed)

  1. To employ again.

Forms of re-employ

third-person singular presentre-employs
present participlere-employing
past participlere-employed
pastre-employed

Origin of re-employ

From re- + employ.

Words formed from re-employ

  • re-employment

Questions about re-employ

What is re-employ the alternative form of?
Re-employ is the alternative form of reemploy.

Words near re-employ in the dictionary

  1. re-emit
  2. re-emphasise
  3. re-emphasised
  4. re-emphasises
  5. re-emphasising
  6. re-employ
  7. re-employed
  8. re-employing
  9. re-employs
  10. re-enable
  11. re-enabled

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Adapted from Wiktionary: re-employ (page history and authors); reemploy (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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