transcription, транскрипция: [ ɪmplɔɪ ]
( 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