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Meaning of "employ" in the English dictionary

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ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD EMPLOY

From Old French emploier, from Latin implicāre to entangle, engage, from plicāre to fold.
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Etymology is the study of the origin of words and their changes in structure and significance.
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PRONUNCIATION OF EMPLOY

employ  [ɪmˈplɔɪ] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF EMPLOY

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Employ is a verb and can also act as a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

The verb is the part of the sentence that is conjugated and expresses action and state of being.

See the conjugation of the verb employ in English.

WHAT DOES EMPLOY MEAN IN ENGLISH?

employ

Employment

Employment is a relationship between two parties, usually based on a contract, one being the employer and the other being the employee.

Definition of employ in the English dictionary

The first definition of employ in the dictionary is to engage or make use of the services of in return for money; hire. Other definition of employ is to provide work or occupation for; keep busy; occupy. Employ is also to use as a means.

CONJUGATION OF THE VERB TO EMPLOY

PRESENT

Present
I employ
you employ
he/she/it employs
we employ
you employ
they employ
Present continuous
I am employing
you are employing
he/she/it is employing
we are employing
you are employing
they are employing
Present perfect
I have employed
you have employed
he/she/it has employed
we have employed
you have employed
they have employed
Present perfect continuous
I have been employing
you have been employing
he/she/it has been employing
we have been employing
you have been employing
they have been employing
Present tense is used to refer to circumstances that exist at the present time or over a period that includes the present time. The present perfect refers to past events, although it can be considered to denote primarily the resulting present situation rather than the events themselves.

PAST

Past
I employed
you employed
he/she/it employed
we employed
you employed
they employed
Past continuous
I was employing
you were employing
he/she/it was employing
we were employing
you were employing
they were employing
Past perfect
I had employed
you had employed
he/she/it had employed
we had employed
you had employed
they had employed
Past perfect continuous
I had been employing
you had been employing
he/she/it had been employing
we had been employing
you had been employing
they had been employing
Past tense forms express circumstances existing at some time in the past,

FUTURE

Future
I will employ
you will employ
he/she/it will employ
we will employ
you will employ
they will employ
Future continuous
I will be employing
you will be employing
he/she/it will be employing
we will be employing
you will be employing
they will be employing
Future perfect
I will have employed
you will have employed
he/she/it will have employed
we will have employed
you will have employed
they will have employed
Future perfect continuous
I will have been employing
you will have been employing
he/she/it will have been employing
we will have been employing
you will have been employing
they will have been employing
The future is used to express circumstances that will occur at a later time.

CONDITIONAL

Conditional
I would employ
you would employ
he/she/it would employ
we would employ
you would employ
they would employ
Conditional continuous
I would be employing
you would be employing
he/she/it would be employing
we would be employing
you would be employing
they would be employing
Conditional perfect
I would have employ
you would have employ
he/she/it would have employ
we would have employ
you would have employ
they would have employ
Conditional perfect continuous
I would have been employing
you would have been employing
he/she/it would have been employing
we would have been employing
you would have been employing
they would have been employing
Conditional or "future-in-the-past" tense refers to hypothetical or possible actions.

IMPERATIVE

Imperative
you employ
we let´s employ
you employ
The imperative is used to form commands or requests.
NONFINITE VERB FORMS
Infinitive
to employ
Past participle
employed
Present Participle
employing
Infinitive shows the action beyond temporal perspective. The present participle or gerund shows the action during the session. The past participle shows the action after completion.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH EMPLOY


accloy
əˈklɔɪ
alloy
ˈælɔɪ
cloy
klɔɪ
cloye
klɔɪ
coemploy
ˌkəʊɪmˈplɔɪ
counterploy
ˈkaʊntəˌplɔɪ
deploy
dɪˈplɔɪ
disemploy
ˌdɪsɪmˈplɔɪ
kumbaloi
ˌkʊmbəˈlɔɪ
loy
lɔɪ
misemploy
ˌmɪsɪmˈplɔɪ
overcloy
ˌəʊvəˈklɔɪ
permalloy
pɜːmˈælɔɪ
ploy
plɔɪ
redeploy
ˌriːdɪˈplɔɪ
saveloy
ˈsævɪˌlɔɪ
sigloi
ˈsɪɡlɔɪ
superalloy
ˈsuːpərˌælɔɪ
tholoi
ˈθəʊlɔɪ
zircalloy
zɜːkˈælɔɪ

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE EMPLOY

emplecton
employability
employable
employe
employee
employee association
employee benefits
employee contribution
employee stock ownership plan
employer
employer contribution
employer´s liability
employers´ association
employers´ federation
employment
employment agency
employment equity
employment exchange
employment law
employment office

WORDS THAT END LIKE EMPLOY

baby boy
boy
cowboy
destroy
doy
enjoy
fusible alloy
hoy
joy
ladyboy
McCoy
nimonic alloy
oy
playboy
re-employ
Roy
soy
the boy
toy
Troy

Synonyms and antonyms of employ in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

SYNONYMS OF «EMPLOY»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «employ» and belong to the same grammatical category.
synonyms of employ

Translation of «employ» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF EMPLOY

Find out the translation of employ to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of employ from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «employ» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

雇用
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

emplear
570 millions of speakers

English

employ
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

रोजगार
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

يُوَظِّفُ
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

нанимать
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

empregar
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

চাকরী
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

employer
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Menggaji
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

beschäftigen
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

雇用する
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

고용하다
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Makarya
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

thuê người
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

வேலை
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

रोजगार
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

kullanmak
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

impiegare
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

zatrudnić
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

наймати
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

a angaja
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

προσλαμβάνω
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

diens
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

anställa
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

ansette
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of employ

TRENDS

TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «EMPLOY»

The term «employ» is very widely used and occupies the 12.520 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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Principal search tendencies and common uses of employ
List of principal searches undertaken by users to access our English online dictionary and most widely used expressions with the word «employ».

FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «EMPLOY» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «employ» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «employ» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about employ

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10 QUOTES WITH «EMPLOY»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word employ.
1
Alfred Adler
The educator must believe in the potential power of his pupil, and he must employ all his art in seeking to bring his pupil to experience this power.
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Benigno Aquino III
Tourism is a crucial industry that could employ millions of Filipinos, skilled and unskilled alike, cross those 7,107 islands of the Philippines. From the current projection of 3.3 million tourist arrivals in 2010, our aim is to eventually attract 6 million tourists. In the process, we expect to create 3 million jobs in the next six years.
3
Gloria Macapagal Arroyo
We have the hardest working people in the world, the most adaptable and the most congenial to employ.
4
William Henry Ashley
As my men could profitably employ themselves on these streams, I moved slowly along, averaging not more than five or six miles per day and sometimes remained two days at the same encampment.
5
Gina Bellman
Many American TV actors employ agents, managers, business managers, publicists and stylists, and are now adding digital media manager to the list. Their job is to reach out to the fans, managing websites, Twitter feeds, Facebook and Wikipedia.
6
Marc Benioff
Learning how to interact with customers is something that anyone starting any business must master. It's an amazing opportunity to be able to learn the ropes at an established company and then employ your expertise at your own company.
7
John Desmond Bernal
As experimentation becomes more complex, the need for the co-operation in it of technical elements from outside becomes greater and the modern laboratory tends increasingly to resemble the factory and to employ in its service increasing numbers of purely routine workers.
8
Derek Bok
I think it's sort of an outrage that companies should have to hire firms to teach the college graduates they employ how to write.
9
Richard Branson
For a successful entrepreneur it can mean extreme wealth. But with extreme wealth comes extreme responsibility. And the responsibility for me is to invest in creating new businesses, create jobs, employ people, and to put money aside to tackle issues where we can make a difference.
10
Michael Burgess
Our community in North Texas is fortunate to have two thriving airports. We serve millions of satisfied customers and employ hundreds of thousands of North Texans. We should not jeopardize that which is working well already.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «EMPLOY»

Discover the use of employ in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to employ and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Did I Really Employ You?: A Step-by-Step Guide to Effective ...
Yet few managers and team leaders know how to recruit effectively. This book is designed to create a template for recruiting people at the front end of the organisation.
Ann Andrews, 2004
2
Welfare reform moving hardtoemploy recipients into the ...
Appendix III Comments From the Department of Health and Human Services Peer Technical Assistance web site offering a variety of resources related to serving those who are hard-to-employ. The Department is conducting an evaluation of ...
3
Instruct, Employ, Don't Hang Them, Or, Ireland Tranquilized ...
Containing Observations on a Few of the Chief Errors of Irish Government and Irish Land Proprietors, with the Means of Their Correction Practically Illustrated John Pitt Kennedy. eflicient agricultural day-schools, and to have supplied the ...
John Pitt Kennedy, 1835
4
Employ'd as a Discoverer: Papers
Includes Cook and the Aborigines by J.V.S. Megaw; for annotation see his Captain Cook and the Australian Aborigine.
J. V. S. Megaw, Sutherland, Australia. Shire Council, 1971
5
How do we best employ animal models for type 1 diabetes and ...
The central themes of this volume are the necessity for novel and improved models, the optimal use of information from animal models to understand pathogenesis of the human disease, and the rational development of novel immunotherapeutics.
Matthias G. Von Herrath, Mark Atkinson, New York Academy of Sciences, 2007
6
A Mathematical Theory Of Spirit: Being An Attempt To Employ ...
This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original.
H. Stanley Redgrove, 2006
7
We, in Some Strange Power's Employ, Move on a Rigorous Line
A robot space probe returns to Earth with malevolent intentions, and demons struggle for control of a small border community
‎1990
8
Achieve Your Dreams: Secrets Wealthy People Employ to ...
Chapter. 12. Be. more. specific. A man frequently said he wished he had a new vehicle? So one day his spouse wanted to surprise him for his birthday and bought him a new car. She walked him out to the garage that morning and there was a ...
Mike Braunschmidt
9
Employ Sensor Fusion Techniques for Determining Aircraft ...
Jason A. Jarrell. duration. As a consequence of the reduction in size, there has also been a reduction in computation power, sensors and actuators. These smaller, cheaper sensors are less precise, generating the need for research in satellite ...
Jason A. Jarrell, 2008
10
Palladium-catalyzed Cross-coupling Reactions of ...
Steven Tymonko. Chapter 2. Preparation and Reactions of Alkynyldimethylsilanols 2.1 Introduction The reaction of alkynes or alkynyl organometallic reagents with aryl halides, commonly known as the Sonogashira reaction, has been ...
Steven Tymonko, 2007

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «EMPLOY»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term employ is used in the context of the following news items.
1
Grants will employ young Vermonters
He has also introduced legislation that would spend $5.5 million for state and local governments to employ 1 million Americans ages 16 to 24. «Barre Montpelier Times Argus, Jul 15»
2
Public institutions failing in their duty to employ people with disabilities
Those who fail to meet the criteria can still make up for the failing by purchasing goods or services from companies that employ predominantly ... «Radio Prague, Jul 15»
3
Greece needs policies to employ people
While European creditors and Greek government remains at logger head over whether or not to accept new reforms as doubts remain whether ... «EconoTimes, Jul 15»
4
Should Uber, like Airbnb, employ a lighter touch with regulators?
In its vigorous effort to legalize “ridesharing,” Uber has made some enemies among decision makers. Two days after the firm announced a ... «SaintPetersBlog, Jul 15»
5
Report: Oman tries solar to enhance oil production
Oman to employ solar technology to stimulate oil production through methods credited with arresting declines during the last decade. «UPI.com, Jul 15»
6
NHS England unveils £15m fund to employ pharmacists in GP …
The three-year programme aims to employ 300 clinical pharmacists in its first wave. NHS England will part-fund these staff, with additional ... «GP online, Jul 15»
7
Religionists must employ reason to justify denial of rights
The relationship between belief and knowledge is that a belief is knowledge if the belief is true, and if the believer has a justification ... «Arizona Daily Star, Jul 15»
8
NHS England launches £15m pilot to employ pharmacists in GP …
GP practices in England will employ around 300 pharmacists to provide clinical care in a £15m pilot, NHS England has announced. «The Pharmaceutical Journal, Jul 15»
9
auto sector to employ 1.5 crore by 2022, says NSDC
Nearly 1.5 crore people are expected to be employed in the automobile sector directly by 2022, according to a National Skill Development ... «Business Today, Jul 15»
10
Contract to employ about 300 pointsmen in Johannesburg expires …
On Tuesday, News24 reported that the contract to employ about 300 pointsmen in Johannesburg will be expiring at the end of July, but the ... «DRUM Magazine, Jul 15»

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