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employ
English
Alternative forms
- imploy (obsolete)
Etymology
Borrowed from Middle French employer, from Latin implicare (“to infold, involve, engage”), from in (“in”) + plicare (“to fold”). Compare imply and implicate, which are doublets of employ .
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?m?pl??/, /?m?pl??/
- Rhymes: -??
Noun
employ (plural employs)
- The state of being an employee; employment.
- (obsolete) The act of employing someone or making use of something; employment.
Verb
employ (third-person singular simple present employs, present participle employing, simple past and past participle employed)
- To hire (somebody for work or a job).
- 1668 July 3rd, James Dalrymple, “Thomas Rue contra Andrew Hou?toun” in The Deci?ions of the Lords of Council & Se??ion I (Edinburgh, 1683), page 547
- Andrew Hou?toun and Adam Mu?het, being Tack?men of the Excize, did Imploy Thomas Rue to be their Collector, and gave him a Sallary of 30. pound Sterling for a year.
- 1668 July 3rd, James Dalrymple, “Thomas Rue contra Andrew Hou?toun” in The Deci?ions of the Lords of Council & Se??ion I (Edinburgh, 1683), page 547
- To use (somebody for a job, or something for a task).
- 1598, William Shakespeare, Othello, Act 1, Scene iii:
- Valiant Othello, we must straight employ you / against the general enemy Ottoman.
- 1598, William Shakespeare, Othello, Act 1, Scene iii:
- To make busy.
- 1598, William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice, Act 2, Scene viii:
- Let it not enter in your mind of love: / Be merry, and employ your chiefest thoughts / to courtship and such fair ostents of love / as shall conveniently become you there
- 1598, William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice, Act 2, Scene viii:
Synonyms
- (to give someone work): hire
- (to put into use): apply, use, utilize
Derived terms
Translations
Further reading
- employ in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- employ in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
- employ at OneLook Dictionary Search
Anagrams
- polemy
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deliveryman
English
Etymology
delivery +? -man
Noun
deliveryman (plural deliverymen)
- Someone employed to make deliveries.
Translations
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