I.verbCOLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a firm employs sb
▪ The firm employs more than 200 people.
employ a consultant
▪ We sometimes employ consultants to help with marketing.
employ/adopt a tacticformal (= use a tactic)
▪ Many species of fish employ similar defence tactics.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
business
▪ Today she runs her own New Age self-help business, Kismet, employing four staff.
▪ Most are sole proprietorships, but about 5 million are distinct business entities employing more than 60 million employees.
▪ This case concerned a man who set up in competition with the business that had previously employed him.
▪ Right now each small business employs 2. 1 people, on average.
▪ The petrochemicals business employs some 3500 people on Teesside, of whom rather less than 100 are in the headquarters group.
▪ All the businesses employed residents, and all were required to hire young people to work with the adults.
▪ The business will employ 36 workers at first with plans to expand.
▪ Just because a business employs less than twenty people does not mean that it will also only make small profits.
company
▪ A number of suggestions are also made to make it more attractive for overseas companies to employ non-domiciled nationals.
▪ In the early eighties, insurance companies employed 1. 9 million workers, 60 percent of them women.
▪ Annoying, too, for a company who have employed 40 additional technical staff in recent months.
▪ The combined company would employ 25, 000 workers in 50 countries.
▪ Some companies employ people to do this on a full-time basis.
▪ Big companies usually train and employ staff specifically to dress their windows.
▪ Today, Guinness Import Company employs approximately 120 people and operates through a nationwide chain of wholesalers.
firm
▪ Do firms employ investment related marketing strategies?
▪ Advancement is easier in large firms that employ several levels of administrative services managers.
▪ Do firms employ consultants to assist with marketing?
▪ The firm, which had employed two thousand people in 1982, had six thousand people by 1987.
▪ Public police forces are losing ground to private security firms, which now employ two-thirds of all security personnel in the nation.
▪ In fact, the forward-thinking firm employs 13 administrative staff together with several drivers and warehouse staff and many dedicated sub-contractors.
▪ The method the firm employs to account for its inventory investment can have an important impact on its reported income.
industry
▪ The entertainment industry now employs more people than the aerospace industry.
▪ First, the insurance industry employs vast numbers of women and pays them even less than comparable jobs in other industries.
▪ Why do these industries employ mostly women?
▪ Many of the industries which employ engineers and scientists derive a large portion of their business from defense contracts.
▪ In Laval in about 1700 the linen industry employed some 5, 000 workers in and around the town.
▪ Which are the industries which employ large numbers of women?
▪ The industry employs 769, 000 workers in five counties.
labour
▪ Better-heeled artificers must almost certainly have been master craftsmen employing labour themselves.
▪ Those firms within the Community which employ labour illicitly will reduce their labour costs and gain a competitive advantage in production.
▪ Plants in such areas tend to be less innovative, their technologies are older, and they employ less skilled labour.
▪ One of the attractions of this work is that it would employ a lot of labour.
▪ He was much admired for managing to employ more labour for less cash than anyone else since the Pharaohs built the pyramids.
▪ The middle 30 percent owned land but did not employ labour, as they relied on family members.
▪ Shoe making was progressively employing cheaper labour around and in Northampton, while in the 1780s calico printing moved north to Lancashire.
man
▪ Maybe somebody employed a hit man.
▪ In the beginning, it employed fourteen men, but expanded and went on to employ hundreds, then thousands.
▪ In textiles more women were employed than men.
▪ I employed men to look after them as I might employ mechanics.
▪ This they did at Motherwell, and the Dalzell works began operations early in 1872, employing 200 men.
▪ Who would employ a sixty-four-year-old man when there were thousands of young men struggling to find work?
▪ Stephenson's was built to employ 2,000 men who would turn out 72 locos a year.
▪ An employment tribunal has ruled that food retailers are fully justified in refusing to employ men who wear them.
manager
▪ The Union employs an Entertainments Manager based at Jordanstown to organize and coordinate an entertainments programme across the four campuses.
▪ There was no clear pattern to the investment strategies employed by the fund managers who scored best.
▪ Returning to our earlier theme, we notice there is a tradeoff for shareholders' representatives in employing a manager.
means
▪ It aims at binding the members of the community together in a libidinal way as well and employs every means to that end.
▪ People have become used to employing violence as a means of resolving conflict or asserting power over others.
▪ It employs mechanical means to organise molecules into a monolayer on the surface of a liquid.
method
▪ Now to speak of the School and the methods Cizek employs.
▪ It is important and valuable to make reference to other studies that have used the particular sampling method you hope to employ.
▪ From thereon a number of methods may be employed 1.
▪ The method the firm employs to account for its inventory investment can have an important impact on its reported income.
▪ Embedded in the teaching method employed by Betty is the transmission model of learning referred to earlier.
▪ In current research, several assessment methods are used, employing client self-report, behavioural observations, and physiological monitoring equipment.
▪ Many students of social behaviour are coming to agree that both methods must be employed together.
▪ A mix of personal interviews and observation methods will be employed.
people
▪ Most SuperTarget stores employ about 500 people, -- compared with about 200 employees in traditional Target stores, Knach said.
▪ One team concentrated on how best to employ technology; the other, how best to employ people.
▪ It follows the announcement of the closure of the Dewar's bottling plant in the city, which employs 340 people.
▪ It employs 11 people and creates designs in glass.
▪ Grundig employed 11, 600 people at the end of last year.
person
▪ Whenever they can avoid the expense and trouble of employing a person by investing in another robot they do so.
▪ Among employed persons there are significant differences in income by race and ethnicity.
▪ In some months there were employed up to 40 such persons but usually fewer.
staff
▪ In the former case, by employing civilian clerical staff a greater proportion of funds can be allocated for direct policing policies.
▪ Hoffman was previously employed as an assistant staff judge advocate with the U.S.
▪ The argument for the Banks employing new staff is indeed great.
▪ CHELTENHAM/Gloucestershire Eagle Star, which has its headquarters in Cheltenham, employs three thousand staff in the town.
▪ In fact, the forward-thinking firm employs 13 administrative staff together with several drivers and warehouse staff and many dedicated sub-contractors.
▪ The company, which employs 70 staff, say work goes on as usual, the fire was confined to a storage area.
▪ Today she runs her own New Age self-help business, Kismet, employing four staff.
▪ Annoying, too, for a company who have employed 40 additional technical staff in recent months.
strategy
▪ Do firms employ investment related marketing strategies?
▪ Tradition, then, becomes a strong power base from which to employ a defensive strategy to resist change.
▪ But here, too, he employs the strategy of delaying clarification.
▪ But groups can employ a variety of strategies to achieve this purpose.
▪ This whole process appears long-winded and complicated but once you are familiar with it you can employ the strategy very quickly.
▪ Rather, it parcels out money to more than three dozen money managers who employ various strategies.
▪ It has employed a dual strategy to achieve these two objectives.
▪ By employing this particular strategy, we knew we were in for a very long ride.
system
▪ Farmers employ mixed cropping systems and plant local cultivars with some resistance to pests.
▪ The navigation system employs Global Positioning System satellites and regional map software to help guide drivers to unfamiliar addresses.
▪ All surveying practices should employ a sophisticated time-recording system which relates to daily time-sheets and measures time-cost incurred against anticipated fees.
▪ Hipparchus employed the system to plot the minor epicycles of the sun and moon only.
tactic
▪ Karpov employed subtle psychological tactics to unsettle the campion.
▪ Amtrak police and the U. S. Customs Service have also employed the tactic to spot drug couriers.
▪ Reptiles and insects employ similar tactics, but in their case eye-spots are not necessary to deflect the interest of their predators.
▪ Apple will need to employ such imaginative tactics to become profitable again.
▪ The many hours on the road give cyclists the opportunity to employ tactics varying from the subtle to the murderous.
▪ Morry Taylor, a businessman, gave rambling discourses on the need to employ business tactics in government; and Rep.
▪ Some small cavity-nesting birds, rather surprisingly, employ similar tactics.
technique
▪ A number of techniques can be employed to make the experience more valuable.
▪ The next chapter will explore some of the analytical techniques that are commonly employed in working capital management.
▪ The main sifting technique employed is called a self-organising map.
▪ The technique employed was a sustained series of massive B-52 strikes.
▪ Some techniques were employed to a lesser extent but still provide invaluable comparative results.
▪ Several implementations of these popular encryption techniques are currently employed.
▪ In the 1950s Keynesian economic management techniques were employed to try to retain full employment without inflation.
▪ Once identified, though, what specific counseling techniques might be employed to help the young work-inhibited student?
woman
▪ However, they have been very active in the large multinational textile and assembly factories which employ women almost exclusively.
▪ First, the insurance industry employs vast numbers of women and pays them even less than comparable jobs in other industries.
▪ Why do these industries employ mostly women?
▪ He also faulted them for not checking to make sure that contractors doing business with the city employ women and minorities.
▪ She also employed a woman who let her guests in and out and offered them a glass of wine while they waited.
▪ Which are the industries which employ large numbers of women?
▪ Clothing companies employ a few dozen women.
▪ Indeed, the overall declines in civic engagement are somewhat greater among housewives than among employed women.
worker
▪ If the weekly wage were £15, however, the firm would employ four workers.
▪ Two months ago, his company opened a Cambridge office that employs seven workers.
▪ Was it not uneconomic to employ older workers whose apparent competence simply masked inevitably growing incapacity?
▪ After starting with a handful, the factory now employs 2, 800 workers.
▪ Heather Wilkinson employs a lot of workers and not only waitresses.
▪ The combined company would employ 25, 000 workers in 50 countries.
▪ The cost to an employer of employing his workers includes government levies of 11.45% of wages paid.
▪ The industry employs 769, 000 workers in five counties.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ I was employed as a night-watchman by the local hospital.
▪ Since he came out of prison no one will employ him.
▪ The equipment employs laser beams to make the computer chips.
▪ We have lively discussions which pleasantly employ our time and our thoughts.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ A conservative policy implies that the firm is less aggressive in minimizing current assets and employing short-term debt.
▪ Anyone who might be interested in employing her should contact me.
▪ Falkman employed a freelance expert to assist it.
▪ If you want to employ an attractive secretary how attractive does she have to be?
▪ It produces 340 drugs and cosmetic products, including penicillin, antibiotics and aspirins. and employs 3, 900 people.
▪ Its principles could be employed by communities, too.
▪ The training plan Considerable effort and expense were employed in providing information and training to help boards get established.
▪ The volatility of their earnings also made it hard for them to deal with the liability concerns raised by employing a student.
II.nounEXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ The simple fact that he was in her husband's employ gave her an advantage over him.