employverb詞源 1/ɪmˈplɔɪ/

• 1

  To retain (someone) as an employee.

  • Our company employs hundreds of people.
  • Andrew Houſtoun and Adam Muſhet, being Tackſmen of the Excize, did Imploy Thomas Rue to be their Collector, and gave him a Sallary of 30. pound Sterling for a year.
• 2

  rareTo provide (someone) with a new job; to hire.

  • Yesterday our local garage employed a new mechanic.
  • The management, who were close personal friends, had just employed a new chef.
• 3

  To use (someone or something) for a job or task.

  • The burglar employed a jemmy to get in.
  • Valiant Othello, we muſt straight employ you, / Againſt the generall Enemy Ottoman.
• 4

  To make busy; to preoccupy.

  • Let it not enter in your minde of loue: / Be merry, and imploy your chiefeſt thoughts / To courtſhip, and ſuch faire oſtents of loue / As ſhall conueniently become you there;
  • I heard the woods, and distant waters, roar; / Or heard them not, as happy as a Boy: / The pleasant season did my heart employ:

employnoun詞源 2/ɪmˈplɔɪ/

• 1

  The state of being an employee; employment.

  • The school district has six thousand teachers in its employ.
  • If Siamese in the employ of British subjects offend against the laws of their country,
• 2

  archaicAn occupation.

  • Still he wrote on. He was too much engrossed in his own charmed employ not to be insensible for a time to all external influences: he might suffer afterwards, but now his mind was his kingdom.
• 3

  obsoleteThe act of employing someone or making use of something; employment.

  • Notwithstanding the employ of general and local bleeding, blisters, &c., the patient died on the fourth day after entrance.