0 to have someone work or do a job for you and pay them for it:
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.
3 to be working for someone
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:
7 to use something:
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 number of people employed by the company has risen from 25 to 200 in three years.
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.
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emplear, contratar, usar…
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iş vermek, çalıştırmak, işe almak…
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donar feina a, contractar…
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