Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English - employ
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Employ
employ
~1 v 1 to pay someone to work for you (The company employs 2000 people worldwide. | be employed as sth) (Dave is employed as a baggage handler at the airport. | employ sb to do sth) (Freelance consultants have been employed to look at ways of reducing waste.) (- see also selfemployed, unemployed1, unemployed2) 2 to use a particular method or skill in order to do something (The report examines teaching methods employed in the classroom.) 3 be employed in doing sth to spend your time doing something (Her days are employed in gardening and voluntary work.) ~2 n in sb's employ formal if you are in someone's employ, you work for them (in the Prince's employ)
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(employs, employing, employed) Frequency: The word is one of the 3000 most common words in English. 1. If a person or company employs you, they pay you to work for them. The company employs 18 staff... More than 3,000 local workers are employed in the tourism industry... The government counted 27,600,000 employed persons in West Germany. VERB: V n, be V-ed in/as n, V-ed, also V n to-inf 2. If you employ certain methods, materials, or expressions, you use them. The tactics the police are now to employ are definitely uncompromising. ...the approaches and methods employed in the study. = use VERB: V n, V-ed, also V n as n 3. If your time is employed in doing something, you are using the time you have to do that thing. Your time could be usefully employed in attending to professional matters... VERB: usu passive, be V-ed in -ing/n 4. If you are in the employ of someone or something, you work for them. (FORMAL) Others hinted that he was in the employ of the KGB... PHRASE ...Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
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I. transitive verb Etymology: Middle English emploien, from Anglo-French empleier, emploier, emplier to entangle, apply, make use of, from Latin implicare to enfold, involve, from in- + plicare to fold — more at ply Date: 15th century 1. a. to make use of (someone or something inactive) ~ a pen for sketching b. to use (as time) advantageously a job that ~ed her skills c. (1) to use or engage the services of (2) to provide with a job that pays wages or a salary a company that ~s fifty 2. to devote to or direct toward a particular activity or person ~ed all her energies to help the poor Synonyms: see use • ~er noun II. noun Date: 1666 1. a. use, purpose b. occupation, job 2. the state of being ~ed in the city's ~ ...Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary
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v. & n. --v.tr. 1 use the services of (a person) in return for payment; keep (a person) in one's service. 2 (often foll. by for, in, on) use (a thing, time, energy, etc.) esp. to good effect. 3 (often foll. by in) keep (a person) occupied. --n. the state of being employed, esp. for wages. Phrases and idioms in the employ of employed by. Derivatives employable adj. employability n. employer n. Etymology: ME f. OF employer ult. f. L implicari be involved f. implicare enfold: see IMPLICATE ...Толковый словарь английского языка Oxford English Reference
Англо-русский Русско-английский научно-технический словарь
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1. сущ. 1) служба, занятие 2) наем - be employed Syn: hire, recruitment, employment, career, office, duty, job, work 2. гл. 1) употреблять, применять, использовать, заниматься 2) наниматься, давать работу, держать на службе ...Англо-русский Русско-английский экономический словарь
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1. работа по найму; служба to be in employ —- иметь работу (службу) to be in the employ of smb. —- работать (служить) у кого-л. to have in one's employ —- иметь у себя на службе, нанимать the company has ten stenographers in its employ —- в компании работает 10 стенографисток to be in the government's employ —- быть на государственной службе 2. уст. дело, занятие 3. предоставлять работу; нанимать; держать на службе, работе; пользоваться услугами the factory employs about a thousand workers —- на фабрике занято около тысячи рабочих to be employed —- работать по найму, служить (у кого-л.) 100 men are employed by the firm —- штат фирмы состоит из 100 человек to be gainfully employed —- иметь оплачиваемую работу 4. употреблять, использовать, применять to employ one's time in reading —- проводить время за чтением to employ a pen for sketching —- для эскизов пользоваться пером to employ questionable methods —- пользоваться сомнительными методами to employ capital —- использовать капитал to employ the right word —- употребить нужное слово your time can be more profitably employed —- вы можете употребить свое время с большей пользой 5. заниматься he employed himself in growing roses after he retired —- после выхода на пенсию он занялся разведением роз 6. занимать (кого-л.) to employ a child at cutting out paper dolls —- занять ребенка вырезанием бумажных кукол 7. тех. загружать...Новый большой англо-русский словарь
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1. noun служба; работа по найму to be in smb. s employ - служить, работать у кого-л. 2. v. 1) держать на службе; предоставлять работу; нанимать to be employed by - работать, служить у the new road will employ hundreds of men - на новой дороге будут заняты сотни людей 2) занимать (чье-л. время и т.п.) how do you employ yourself of an evening? - что вы делаете вечером? to employ at - занимать чем-л. How long have you been employed at this job? Two girls were employed at filling envelopes. 3) употреблять, применять, использовать (in, on, for) to employ theory in ones experiments - в своих экспериментах опираться на теорию Syn: see hire EMPLOY non-union labour принимать на работу не членов профсоюза ...Англо-русский словарь
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- early 15c., from M.Fr. employer, from O.Fr. empleier, from L. implicare "enfold, involve, be connected with," from in- "in" + plicare "to fold." Sense of "hire, engage" first recorded in Eng. 1584, from "involve in a particular purpose." Imply, which is the same word, retains more of the original sense. Employee (mainly U.S.) is attested from 1854, from Fr. employй (fem. employeй), pp. of employer. ...Английский Этимологический словарь
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