employ
/ɪmˈplɔɪ/ verb B2- To retain (someone) as an employee. · Our company employs hundreds of people.
- To provide (someone) with a new job; to hire. · Yesterday our local garage employed a new mechanic.
- To use (someone or something) for a job or task. · The burglar employed a jemmy to get in.
- To make busy; to preoccupy.
He/she/it employs · Past employed · Past participle employed · -ing form employing
Verb forms
- Base form
- employ
- He/she/it
- employs
- Past
- employed
- Past participle
- employed
- -ing form
- employing
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The king is either a king or no king; if he be acknowledged as sovereign of France, he should be upheld in peace and tranquillity; and this can best be effected by employing the most inflexible agents to put down every attempt at conspiracy—’tis the best and surest means of preventing mischief.”
“Ah,” said Dantès, “you might well endure the tedious delay; you were constantly employed in the task you set yourself, and when weary with toil, you had your hopes to refresh and encourage you.”
You have not hesitated to entrust your heads to a man, whom no one could employ to make even the shoes for their feet.”
“Ah, ah,” murmured he, “is Dantès then a member of some Carbonari society, that his protector thus employs the collective form?
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