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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Bounce :: Bounce (v. t.) To eject violently, as from a room; to discharge unceremoniously, as from employment..
Down :: Down (prep.) A road for shipping in the English Channel or Straits of Dover, near Deal, employed as a naval rendezvous in time of war..
Employment :: Employment (n.) The act of employing or using; also, the state of being employed..
Serve :: Serve (v. t.) To work for; to labor in behalf of; to exert one's self continuously or statedly for the benefit of; to do service for; to be in the employment of, as an inferior, domestic, serf, slave, hired assistant, official helper, etc.; specifically, in a religious sense, to obey and worship..
Element :: Element (n.) One of the ultimate, undecomposable constituents of any kind of matter. Specifically: (Chem.) A substance which cannot be decomposed into different kinds of matter by any means at present employed; as, the elements of water are oxygen and hydrogen..
Pioneer :: Pioneer (n.) A soldier detailed or employed to form roads, dig trenches, and make bridges, as an army advances..
Freighter :: Freighter (n.) One employed in receiving and forwarding freight.
Write :: Write (v. i.) To be regularly employed or occupied in writing, copying, or accounting; to act as clerk or amanuensis; as, he writes in one of the public offices..
Solvent :: Solvent (n.) A substance (usually liquid) suitable for, or employed in, solution, or in dissolving something; as, water is the appropriate solvent of most salts, alcohol of resins, ether of fats, and mercury or acids of metals, etc..
Manufacture :: Manufacture (v. i.) To be employed in manufacturing something.
Galvanoplastic :: Galvanoplastic (a.) Of or pertaining to the art or process of electrotyping; employing, or produced by, the process of electolytic deposition; as, a galvano-plastic copy of a medal or the like..
Colloquialism :: Colloquialism (n.) A colloquial expression, not employed in formal discourse or writing..
Synthesize :: Synthesist (n.) One who employs synthesis, or who follows synthetic methods..
Disoccupation :: Disoccupation (n.) The state of being unemployed; want of occupation.
Slaughterman :: Slaughterman (n.) One employed in slaughtering.
Botany :: Botany (a. & n.) The science which treats of the structure of plants, the functions of their parts, their places of growth, their classification, and the terms which are employed in their description and denomination. See Plant..
Serf :: Serf (v. t.) A servant or slave employed in husbandry, and in some countries attached to the soil and transferred with it, as formerly in Russia..
Whip :: Whip (v. t.) To fish (a body of water) with a rod and artificial fly, the motion being that employed in using a whip..
Lumberman :: Lumberman (n.) One who is engaged in lumbering as a business or employment.
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..
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