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Definitions for Employ

[1] to hire or engage the services of (a person or persons); provide employment for; have or keep in one's service: This factory employs thousands of people.
[2] to keep busy or at work; engage the attentions of: He employs himself by reading after work.
[3] to make use of (an instrument, means, etc.); use; apply: to employ a hammer to drive a nail.
[4] to occupy or devote (time, energies, etc.): I employ my spare time in reading. I employ all my energies in writing.
[5] employment; service: to be in someone's employ.
[6] to engage or make use of the services of (a person) in return for money; hire
[7] to provide work or occupation for; keep busy; occupy collecting stamps employs a lot of his time
[8] to use as a means to employ secret measures to get one's ends
[9] the state of being employed (esp in the phrase in someone's employ )

Words related to Employ

use, engage, handle, utilize, occupy, exploit, apply, operate, spend, retain, hire, enlist, bestow, exert, manipulate, exercise, fill, secure, procure, contract

Words nearby Employ

empirism, emplace, emplacement, emplane, emplectite, employ, employable, employee, employee association, employer, employers' association

Origin of Employ

1425–75; late Middle English employen < Anglo-French, Middle French emploier ≪ Latin implicāre to enfold (Late Latin: to engage); see implicate

Other words from Employ

de-em·ployed , adjective
non·em·ploy·ing , adjective
o·ver·em·ploy , verb (used with object)
pre·em·ploy , verb (used with object)
re·em·ploy , verb (used with object)
well-em·ployed , adjective

Word origin for Employ

C15: from Old French emploier, from Latin implicāre to entangle, engage, from plicāre to fold

Synonyms for Employ

apply, engage, exploit, handle, occupy, operate, spend, use, utilize, bestow, exercise, exert, fill, manipulate, bring to bear, keep busy, put to use, take up, use up