Definition of employ

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Employ (n.) That which engages or occupies a person; fixed or regular service or business; employment.

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Sudden :: Sudden (a.) Hastly prepared or employed; quick; rapid.
Analogize :: Analogize (v. i.) To employ, or reason by, analogy..
Proctor :: Proctor (n.) An officer employed in admiralty and ecclesiastical causes. He answers to an attorney at common law, or to a solicitor in equity..
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..
Employ :: 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..
Staff :: Staff (n.) An establishment of officers in various departments attached to an army, to a section of an army, or to the commander of an army. The general's staff consists of those officers about his person who are employed in carrying his commands into execution. See Etat Major..
Colloquialism :: Colloquialism (n.) A colloquial expression, not employed in formal discourse or writing..
Dawdle :: Dawdle (v. i.) To waste time in trifling employment; to trifle; to saunter.
Handi-craftsman :: Handi-craftsman (n.) A man skilled or employed in handcraft.
Retainer :: Retainer (n.) A fee paid to engage a lawyer or counselor to maintain a cause, or to prevent his being employed by the opposing party in the case; -- called also retaining fee..
Prompter :: Prompter (n.) One who reminds another, as an actor or an orator, of the words to be spoken next; specifically, one employed for this purpose in a theater..
Ipecacuanha :: Ipecacuanha (n.) The root of a Brazilian rubiaceous herb (Cephaelis Ipecacuanha), largely employed as an emetic; also, the plant itself; also, a medicinal extract of the root. Many other plants are used as a substitutes; among them are the black or Peruvian ipecac (Psychotria emetica), the white ipecac (Ionidium Ipecacuanha), the bastard or wild ipecac (Asclepias Curassavica), and the undulated ipecac (Richardsonia scabra)..
Swallow :: Swallow (v. t.) To occupy; to take up; to employ.
Puffer :: Puffer (n.) One who is employed by the owner or seller of goods sold at suction to bid up the price; a by-bidder.
Dustman :: Dustman (p.) One whose employment is to remove dirt and defuse.
Misemploy :: Misemploy (v. t.) To employ amiss; as, to misemploy time, advantages, talents, etc..
Singer :: Singer (n.) One employed to singe cloth.
Constructive :: Constructive (a.) Having ability to construct or form; employed in construction; as, to exhibit constructive power..
Thymiatechny :: Thymiatechny (n.) The art of employing perfumes in medicine.
Saccharimetry :: Saccharimetry (n.) The act, process or method of determining the amount and kind of sugar present in sirup, molasses, and the like, especially by the employment of polarizing apparatus..
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