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Synonyms for employ
ɛmˈplɔɪem·ploy

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Wiktionary3.5 / 2 votes

  1. employnoun

    Synonyms:
    employment, hire

  2. employnoun

    To give someone work or a job.

    The school district has six thousand teachers in its employ.

    Synonyms:
    hire, employment

English Synonyms and Antonyms0.0 / 0 votes

  1. employ

    In general terms it may be said that to employ is to devote to one's purpose, to use is to render subservient to one's purpose; what is used is viewed as more absolutely an instrument than what is employed; a merchant employs a clerk; he uses pen and paper; as a rule, use is not said of persons, except in a degrading sense; as, the conspirators used him as a go-between. Hence the expression common in some religious circles "that God would use me" is not to be commended; it has also the fault of representing the human worker as absolutely a passive and helpless instrument; the phrase is altogether unscriptural; the Scripture says, "We are laborers together with (co-workers with) God." That which is used is often consumed in the using, or in familiar phrase used up; as, we used twenty tons of coal last winter; in such cases we could not substitute employ. A person may be employed in his own work or in that of another; in the latter case the service is always understood to be for pay. In this connection employ is a word of more dignity than hire; a general is employed in his country's service; a mercenary adventurer is hired to fight a tyrant's battles. It is unsuitable, according to present usage, to speak of hiring a pastor; the Scripture, indeed, says of the preacher, "The laborer is worthy of his hire;" but this sense is archaic, and hire now implies that the one hired works directly and primarily for the pay, as expressed in the noun "hireling;" a Pastor is properly said to be called, or when the business side of the transaction is referred to, engaged, or possibly employed, at a certain salary.

    Synonyms:
    call, engage, engross, hire, make use of, use, use up

    Preposition:
    Employ in, on, upon, or about a work, business, etc.; for a purpose; at a stipulated salary.

Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms0.0 / 0 votes

  1. employ

    Synonyms:
    reapply, economize, occupy, engage, engross

    Antonyms:
    discard, dismiss, misuse, misemploy

Princeton's WordNet0.0 / 0 votes

  1. employment, employverb

    the state of being employed or having a job

    "they are looking for employment"; "he was in the employ of the city"

    Synonyms:
    use, utilisation, exercise, employment, usage, work, utilization, engagement

  2. use, utilize, utilise, apply, employverb

    put into service; make work or employ for a particular purpose or for its inherent or natural purpose

    "use your head!"; "we only use Spanish at home"; "I can't use this tool"; "Apply a magnetic field here"; "This thinking was applied to many projects"; "How do you utilize this tool?"; "I apply this rule to get good results"; "use the plastic bags to store the food"; "He doesn't know how to use a computer"

    Synonyms:
    lend oneself, use, practice, give, hold, utilise, put on, engage, hire, enforce, implement, expend, utilize, go for, apply, habituate

  3. hire, engage, employverb

    engage or hire for work

    "They hired two new secretaries in the department"; "How many people has she employed?"

    Synonyms:
    rent, prosecute, occupy, use, engross, charter, mesh, utilise, operate, absorb, engage, affiance, hire, betroth, lock, take, wage, pursue, lease, utilize, apply, plight, enlist

Editors Contribution0.0 / 0 votes

  1. make productive

    Submitted by anonymous on December 30, 2019  

Dictionary of English Synonymes0.0 / 0 votes

  1. employverb

    Synonyms:
    busy, engage, engross, exercise, occupy

  2. employverb

    Synonyms:
    use, apply, make use of

  3. employverb

    Synonyms:
    entrust with an agency, enlist in one's service, give employment to

  4. employnoun

    Synonyms:
    EMPLOYMENT

PPDB, the paraphrase database0.0 / 0 votes

  1. List of paraphrases for "employ":

    hire, use, employing, recruit, hiring, employment

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How to use employ in a sentence?

  1. Christopher Bogdan:

    What makes us better and special is what’s on the inside of those airplanes, our radar, our abilities to take information into the battle space – and the weapons to employ that knowledge. That’s what makes it different.

  2. Chris Karns:

    For security reasons, I won't pinpoint where The American forces will flow, it is important( that) groups, such as ISIS, don't have an exact map of our whereabouts, but instead we use our finite resources on the continent to adjust swiftly, efficiently, and employ with maximum effect.

  3. Qin Jun:

    It has an experimental element, we will employ fewer people and use more technology.

  4. Standard Bank:

    Chris Hart, an Investment Strategist at Standard Bank Wealth and Investment has resigned and has left the employ of the bank.

  5. Robert Kadlec:

    We're looking to employ and deploy some of our national disaster medical system personnel as well as other federal health care personnel to assist at the Evergreen long-term treatment facility.


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