different between employ vs pozzy

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)

1. The state of being an employee; employment.
2. (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)

1. 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.
2. 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.
3. 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

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

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?p?.zi/
• Rhymes: -?zi

Etymology 1

Unclear, perhaps from a southern African language; from late 19thC, revived during World War I.

Noun

pozzy (uncountable)

1. (Britain, military slang) Jam (“fruit conserve made from fruit boiled with sugar”).
   • 1929, Frederic Manning, The Middle Parts of Fortune, Vintage 2014, p. 136:

     ‘Could you pinch a tin of pozzy out of stores?’

Derived terms

• pozzy-wallah

Etymology 2

From position +? -y (“diminutive suffix”), with spelling shift; variant of possie.

Alternative forms

• possie

Noun

pozzy (plural pozzies)

1. (Australia, New Zealand, military slang, Digger slang) A firing position.
   • 1916, various ANZAC soldiers, The Anzac Book, page 10,

     […] and Jerry O?Dwyer had shot two crows from the new sniper?s pozzy down at the creek-—and so on.

   • 1942, Charles Edwin Woodrow Bean, Official History of Australia in the War of 1914–1918, Volume III: The Australian Imperial Force in France, 1916, 13th(?) Edition, page 340,

     Brown himself, unaware even that there was an officer among his captives, picked up his rifle, went back to his “pozzy,” and dismissed the incident from his mind […]

   • 1975, William D. Joynt, Saving the Channel Ports, 1918, page 84,

     They had also wonderful confidence in their leaders — they knew the best pozzy would be taken up.

2. (Australia, New Zealand, colloquial) A position or place, especially one that is advantageous.
   • 1971, Herman Charles Bosman, Cold Stone Jug, page 36,

     So I says to him, no, I can?t go back to the pozzy I?m sharing with Snowy Fisher and the late Pap.

   • 2006, Pip Wilson, Faces in the Street: Louisa and Henry Lawson and the Castlereagh Street Push, page 62,

     Stretching his legs has been good for him, and this Pitt-street pozzy near the GPO is a splendid spot for a sandwich and a good book.