Definition of employ

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Employ (v. t.) To occupy; as, to employ time in study..

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Mechanic :: Mechanic (a.) A mechanician; an artisan; an artificer; one who practices any mechanic art; one skilled or employed in shaping and uniting materials, as wood, metal, etc., into any kind of structure, machine, or other object, requiring the use of tools, or instruments..
Task :: Task (v.) Business; employment; undertaking; labor.
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..
Commissioner :: Commissioner (n.) A person who has a commission or warrant to perform some office, or execute some business, for the government, corporation, or person employing him; as, a commissioner to take affidavits or to adjust claims..
Demiurge :: Demiurge (n.) According to the Gnostics, an agent or one employed by the Supreme Being to create the material universe and man..
Broker :: Broker (v. t.) An agent employed to effect bargains and contracts, as a middleman or negotiator, between other persons, for a compensation commonly called brokerage. He takes no possession, as broker, of the subject matter of the negotiation. He generally contracts in the names of those who employ him, and not in his own..
Improvement :: Improvement (n.) The act of making profitable use or applicaton of anything, or the state of being profitably employed; a turning to good account; practical application, as of a doctrine, principle, or theory, stated in a discourse..
Materiel :: Materiel (n.) That in a complex system which constitutes the materials, or instruments employed, in distinction from the personnel, or men; as, the baggage, munitions, provisions, etc., of an army; or the buildings, libraries, and apparatus of a college, in distinction from its officers..
Strontium :: Strontium (n.) A metallic element of the calcium group, always naturally occurring combined, as in the minerals strontianite, celestite, etc. It is isolated as a yellowish metal, somewhat malleable but harder than calcium. It is chiefly employed (as in the nitrate) to color pyrotechnic flames red. Symbol Sr. Atomic weight 87.3..
Tenne :: Tenne (n.) A tincture, rarely employed, which is considered as an orange color or bright brown. It is represented by diagonal lines from sinister to dexter, crossed by vertical lines..
Turn :: Turn (v. t.) To change from a given use or office; to divert, as to another purpose or end; to transfer; to use or employ; to apply; to devote..
Ceraunoscope :: Ceraunoscope (n.) An instrument or apparatus employed in the ancient mysteries to imitate thunder and lightning.
Thermochemistry :: Thermochemistry (n.) That branch of chemical science which includes the investigation of the various relations existing between chemical action and that manifestation of force termed heat, or the determination of the heat evolved by, or employed in, chemical actions..
Unemployed :: Unemployed (a.) Not employed in manual or other labor; having no regular work.
Lumper :: Lumper (n.) A laborer who is employed to load or unload vessels when in harbor.
Jenkins :: "Jenkins (n.) name of contempt for a flatterer of persons high in social or official life; as, the Jenkins employed by a newspaper..
Wear :: Wear (v. i.) To endure or suffer use; to last under employment; to bear the consequences of use, as waste, consumption, or attrition; as, a coat wears well or ill; -- hence, sometimes applied to character, qualifications, etc.; as, a man wears well as an acquaintance..
Whaler :: Whaler (n.) A vessel or person employed in the whale fishery.
Manducatory :: Manducatory (a.) Pertaining to, or employed in, chewing..
Krooman :: Krooman (n.) One of a negro tribe of Liberia and the adjacent coast, whose members are much employed on shipboard..
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