employ
/ɪmˈplɔɪ/ verbo B2En español: emplear
- 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 · Pasado employed · Participio pasado employed · Forma en -ing employing
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- He/she/it
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- Pasado
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- Participio pasado
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- Forma en -ing
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Observing his second daughter employed in trimming a hat, he suddenly addressed her with,--
But though Bingley and Jane meet tolerably often, it is never for many hours together; and as they always see each other in large mixed parties, it is impossible that every moment should be employed in conversing together.
“Undoubtedly,” replied Darcy, to whom this remark was chiefly addressed, “there is meanness in _all_ the arts which ladies sometimes condescend to employ for captivation.
Hurst sang with her sister; and while they were thus employed, Elizabeth could not help observing, as she turned over some music-books that lay on the instrument, how frequently Mr.
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