Definition of employ

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Employ (v. t.) To inclose; to infold.

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Occupier :: Occupier (n.) One who follows an employment; hence, a tradesman..
Doorplane :: Doorplane (n.) A plane on a door, giving the name, and sometimes the employment, of the occupant..
Curative :: Curative (v. t.) Relating to, or employed in, the cure of diseases; tending to cure..
Spiritualist :: Spiritualist (n.) One who professes a regard for spiritual things only; one whose employment is of a spiritual character; an ecclesiastic.
Factotum :: Factotum (n.) A person employed to do all kinds of work or business.
Stereotypery :: Stereotypery (n.) The art, process, or employment of making stereotype plates..
Topic :: Topic (n.) One of the various general forms of argument employed in probable as distinguished from demonstrative reasoning, -- denominated by Aristotle to`poi (literally, places), as being the places or sources from which arguments may be derived, or to which they may be referred; also, a prepared form of argument, applicable to a great variety of cases, with a supply of which the ancient rhetoricians and orators provided themselves; a commonplace of argument or oratory..
Milling :: Milling (n.) The act or employment of grinding or passing through a mill; the process of fulling; the process of making a raised or intented edge upon coin, etc.; the process of dressing surfaces of various shapes with rotary cutters. See Mill..
Picket :: Picket (n.) By extension, men appointed by a trades union, or other labor organization, to intercept outsiders, and prevent them from working for employers with whom the organization is at variance..
Espionage :: Espionage (n.) The practice or employment of spies; the practice of watching the words and conduct of others, to make discoveries, as spies or secret emissaries; secret watching..
Colleague :: Colleague (n.) A partner or associate in some civil or ecclesiastical office or employment. It is never used of partners in trade or manufactures.
Corbel :: Corbel (n.) A bracket supporting a superincumbent object, or receiving the spring of an arch. Corbels were employed largely in Gothic architecture..
Birdcatcher :: Birdcatcher (n.) One whose employment it is to catch birds; a fowler.
Blacklist :: Blacklist (v. t.) To put in a black list as deserving of suspicion, censure, or punishment; esp. to put in a list of persons stigmatized as insolvent or untrustworthy, -- as tradesmen and employers do for mutual protection; as, to blacklist a workman who has been discharged. See Black list, under Black, a..
Spend :: Spend (v. t.) To bestow; to employ; -- often with on or upon.
Phonotypy :: Phonotypy (n.) A method of phonetic printing of the English language, as devised by Mr. Pitman, in which nearly all the ordinary letters and many new forms are employed in order to indicate each elementary sound by a separate character..
Unemployed :: Unemployed (a.) Not employed in manual or other labor; having no regular work.
Disoccupation :: Disoccupation (n.) The state of being unemployed; want of occupation.
Engage :: Engage (v. t.) To employ the attention and efforts of; to occupy; to engross; to draw on.
Perquisite :: Perquisite (n.) Something gained from a place or employment over and above the ordinary salary or fixed wages for services rendered; especially, a fee allowed by law to an officer for a specific service..
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