0 to have someone work or do a job for you and pay them for it -- 僱用
Can't we employ someone as an assistant to help with all this paperwork? 我們不可以僱一位助理來協助處理這些文書工作嗎？
[ + to infinitive ] We've employed a market researcher to find out what people really want from a cable TV system. 我們已經僱用了一位市場調查研究員來調查人們到底想透過有線電視系統看到甚麽樣的節目。
More people are now employed in service industries than in manufacturing. 現在服務業的就業人數多於製造業。
1 to use something -- 使用；利用
Sophisticated statistical analysis was employed to obtain these results. 利用尖端的統計分析技術得到了這些結果。
3 to be working for someone -- 受僱於…；爲…工作
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.
