Crossword clues for employed
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Employ \Em*ploy"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Employed; p. pr. & vb. n. Employing.] [F. employer, fr. L. implicare to fold into, infold, involve, implicate, engage; in + plicare to fold. See Ply, and cf. Imply, Implicate.]
To inclose; to infold. [Obs.]
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To use; to have in service; to cause to be engaged in doing something; -- often followed by in, about, on, or upon, and sometimes by to; as:
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To make use of, as an instrument, a means, a material, etc., for a specific purpose; to apply; as, to employ the pen in writing, bricks in building, words and phrases in speaking; to employ the mind; to employ one's energies.
This is a day in which the thoughts . . . ought to be employed on serious subjects.
--Addison. To occupy; as, to employ time in study.
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To have or keep at work; to give employment or occupation to; to intrust with some duty or behest; as, to employ a hundred workmen; to employ an envoy.
Jonathan . . . and Jahaziah . . . were employed about this matter.
--Ezra x. 15.Thy vineyard must employ the sturdy steer To turn the glebe.
--Dryden.To employ one's self, to apply or devote one's time and attention; to busy one's self.
Syn: To use; busy; apply; exercise; occupy; engross; engage. See Use.
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Wiktionary
1 used 2 in a job; working v
(en-past of: employ)
WordNet
adj. having your services engaged for; or having a job especially one that pays wages or a salary; "most of our graduates are employed" [ant: unemployed]
put to use [syn: made use of(p)]
Usage examples of "employed".
They employed the two deserters, joined with two Acadian prisoners, to kidnap Saint-Castin, whom, next to the priest Thury, they regarded as their most insidious enemy.
A hereditary monarchy could be a republic, Adams held, as England demonstrated, and hereditary aristocracies could be usefully employed in balanced governments, as in the House of Lords.
But then neither did Adams write of his own increasing worry and sorrow over his son Thomas, who, having failed in the law, was drinking heavily and employed now primarily as a caretaker for his father and the farm.
Eutaktos grew angry, shouting that Aesculapius would not have employed such words to describe the goddess.
Arab menaces Medina, The Aethiop has intrenched himself in Sennaar, And keeps the Egyptian rebel well employed, Who denies homage, claims investiture As price of tardy aid.
Huns and Alani, whom he had attached to his person, was employed in the defence of Gaul.
Other dye-stuffs, such as fustic, Persian berries and Alizarine yellow, are best dyed on a basic chrome mordant, which is effected when tartar or oxalic acid is the assistant mordant used, or when some other form of chrome compound than bichrome is employed.
Forsaking the tactics which alpinists normally employed in almost every other range on earth, the Ultimate Summit proceeded carefully and slowly.
Emetin, the active principle of ipecac, which has been successfully used in amebic dysentery, is now employed in the treatment of this trouble.
Although amniography has been used in early pregnancies, it has more recently been employed in general clinical practice in the last three months of pregnancy.
Air forces were so much stronger and more mobile than surface forces, which were largely employed in escort duty, that all the antisubmarine fights in this theater were aircraft vs.
Swedes, in Pensylvania and New Jersey, they made ropes of this apocynum, which the Swedes bought, and employed them as bridles, and for nets.
Hildanus himself reports, in detail, the case of a lady who had received a moderate wound, for which the Unguentum Armarium was employed without the slightest use.
LABRADOR SMITH Steaming down Main Street in the Assiniboine during the Red Riverflood of 1897, Emerson, Manitoba By 1879, seventeen ships, not all owned by the HBC, were regularly employed on prairie rivers.
On 13 April 1945, the Third Battalion, advancing along Highway 9 from Monglo Hill toward Baguio, employed medium tanks against enemy positions in caves along the road, and reached the west slope of Hairpin Hill after an advance of 1500 yards against moderate resistance.