Wat betekent employ in het Engels en wat is de definitie van employ?

Je kunt de uitspraak, grammatica en synoniemen van employ leren in dit Engels woordenboek.

employ Betekenis, Definitie, Uitspraak, Grammatica & Synoniemen❤️

0 to have someone work or do a job for you and pay them for it:
- How many people does your company employ?
- Can't we employ someone as an assistant to help with all this paperwork?
- [ + to infinitive ] We've employed a market researcher to find out what people really want from a cable TV system.
- More people are now employed in service industries than in manufacturing.
1 to use something:
- Sophisticated statistical analysis was employed to obtain these results.
2 to spend time doing something:
- He was busily employed in lacing up his shoes.
3 to be working for someone
4 to pay someone to work or do a job for you:
- The factory employs 87 workers.
5 to use something for a particular purpose:
- Jacobs employs this phrase repeatedly.
6 to have someone work or do a job for you and pay them for it:
- The call centre employs over 100 people.
- employ sb as sth Mr Reid is employed as a lobbyist by the firm.
- employ sb to do sth The fund employs an investment manager to manage its assets.
- be employed in sth More than 100 staff currently employed in sales and marketing will lose their jobs.
7 to use something:
- employ sth to do sth The company also employs direct marketing and mail to reach potential customers.
- Builders today employ more recycled materials than they used to.
8 to spend time doing something:
- We have been employed in updating the catalogue for most of the morning.
9 to be working for someone:
- She has been in the company's employ for twelve years.

We need to employ more supervisory staff.
The firm employs several freelance editors.
The number of people employed by the company has risen from 25 to 200 in three years.
They've employed her for a six-month trial period.
The problem with employing people who are overqualified for the job is that they often don't stay in it for long.
The bivariate twin method can in principle be employed to explore all these alternatives.
In the present study, we employed two traditional scales of hypochondriasis.
In relation to the first axis, a strong tendency has been for music to be employed more frequently the 'lighter' the topic and/or treatment.