Definition of employ

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Employ (v. t.) 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..

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Merchantman :: Merchantman (n.) A trading vessel; a ship employed in the transportation of goods, as, distinguished from a man-of-war..
Dustman :: Dustman (p.) One whose employment is to remove dirt and defuse.
Practice :: Practice (v. t.) To make use of; to employ.
Occupation :: Occupation (n.) That which occupies or engages the time and attention; the principal business of one's life; vocation; employment; calling; trade.
Usage :: Usage (n.) Customary use or employment, as of a word or phrase in a particular sense or signification..
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..
Surgeonry :: Surgeoncy (n.) The office or employment of a surgeon, as in the naval or military service..
Doorplane :: Doorplane (n.) A plane on a door, giving the name, and sometimes the employment, of the occupant..
Detective :: Detective (a.) Fitted for, or skilled in, detecting; employed in detecting crime or criminals; as, a detective officer..
Coachfellow :: Coachfellow (n.) One of a pair of horses employed to draw a coach; hence (Fig.), a comrade..
Sepoy :: Sepoy (n.) A native of India employed as a soldier in the service of a European power, esp. of Great Britain; an Oriental soldier disciplined in the European manner..
Photics :: Photics (n.) The science of light; -- a general term sometimes employed when optics is restricted to light as a producing vision.
Industry :: Industry (n.) Habitual diligence in any employment or pursuit, either bodily or mental; steady attention to business; assiduity; -- opposed to sloth and idleness; as, industry pays debts, while idleness or despair will increase them..
Idle :: Idle (v. i.) To lose or spend time in inaction, or without being employed in business..
Preposition :: Preposition (n.) A word employed to connect a noun or a pronoun, in an adjectival or adverbial sense, with some other word; a particle used with a noun or pronoun (in English always in the objective case) to make a phrase limiting some other word; -- so called because usually placed before the word with which it is phrased; as, a bridge of iron; he comes from town; it is good for food; he escaped by running..
Birdcatcher :: Birdcatcher (n.) One whose employment it is to catch birds; a fowler.
Work :: Work (n.) Exertion of strength or faculties; physical or intellectual effort directed to an end; industrial activity; toil; employment; sometimes, specifically, physically labor..
Sacrifical :: Sacrifical (a.) Employed in sacrifice.
Tar :: Tar (n.) A thick, black, viscous liquid obtained by the distillation of wood, coal, etc., and having a varied composition according to the temperature and material employed in obtaining it..
Apply :: Apply (v. t.) To fix closely; to engage and employ diligently, or with attention; to attach; to incline..
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