Definition: 1. Engage or hire for work. 2. The state of being employed or having a job. 3. Put into service; make work or employ (something) for a particular purpose or for its inherent or natural purpose.
Use 'employ' in a sentence:
1. The number of people employed in agriculture has fallen in the last decade.
2. Alexander is a racist who refuses to employ blacks.
3. Your time could be usefully employed in attending to professional matters.
4. She was employed as a cook in a hotel.
5. He was employed by them for eighteen years.
6. The factories here employ 17,000 people in an area where there is very little alternative employment.
7. Many graduates are employed in the electronics and computing industries.
8. When did he leave your employ?
9. An alternative technique could employ conventional lanes, which would be shared by automated and regular vehicles.
10. I'll engage for John's behaviour should you decide to employ him.
11. The organizers have to employ performers to pull a crowd.
12. More than 3,000 local workers are employed in the tourism industry.
13. We'll have to check him out before we employ him.
14. It is said that all of us employ a mix of both these types of planning.
15. He has employed one of the UK's top lawyers to defend him.
16. Factories that employ workers to do dangerous work should be closed.
17. She agreed to employ me for a trial period.
18. Many Bangladeshis were employed in the construction or fishing industries.
19. Others hinted that he was in the employ of the KGB.
20. For the past three years he has been employed as a firefighter.
21. It's not only unsustainable for workers, but also for the companies that employ them.
22. Many people feel that volunteering to help feed, cloth, and employ the homeless reduces the population of those in need.
23. Thorn's electronics operation employs around 5,000 people.
24. Many of the big DIY warehouses employ older, ex-skilled men and women to help their customers.
25. I shouldn't employ them — they're just a bunch of amateurs.
26. We employ her as an English interpreter.
27. She was employed in making a list of all the jobs to be done.
28. It's standard practice for a company like this one to employ a security officer.
29. It's no wonder these companies employ teams of people focused on engineering their services to be as engaging as possible.
30. Those in his employ were careful never to enrage him.
31. It would be preferable to employ two people, not one.
32. How many workmen do you employ at your factory?
33. How many people does the company employ?
34. He criticized the repressive methods employed by the country's government.
35. The Government employs tax inspectors to check up and make sure people pay all their tax.
36. The farm employed a tractor driver and two general labourers.
37. Its lawmakers gave preliminary approval last week to a law that would make it a crime to employ ultra-thin models on runways.
38. She has to employ two gardeners to look after that huge garden.
39. You should think twice about employing someone you've never met.
40. We employ aluminium for our cooking pots.
41. We employ a gardener two days a week.
42. The journalists would be much better employed in trying to explain to us how the astronomical legal costs of the cases can be justified.
43. A number of people have been employed to deal with the backlog of work.
44. We were discussing the necessity of employing more staff.
45. The company Jackie chose planned to employ only one person, but more than twenty people applied for the job.
46. The agent was in the employ of a foreign country.
47. The first companies to go in took a policy of employing East Germans and training them up.
48. Selective schools don't systematically employ better instructional approaches than less selective schools.
49. The government counted 27,600,000 employed persons in West Germany.
50. He has been in the employ of the company for nearly forty years.
51. A famous company wanted to employ a reception secretary for its public relation department.
52. Employ the most up-to-date technology.
53. The tactics the police are now to employ are definitely uncompromising.
54. The company employs 18 staff.
55. It's a standard practice for a company like this one to employ a security officer.
56. Why didn't you employ the new method?
57. Yorco and Zortech are two corporations that employ large numbers of full-time workers who are paid by the hour.
58. Some enterprises owned by the whole people employ workers and staff originally belonging to collective enterprises.
59. More females than males are employed in the factory.
60. We only employ female workers.
61. For months there was a veto on employing new staff.
62. With this end in view they employed 50 new staff.
63. The police had to employ force to enter the building.
64. We employ an expert to advise on new technology.
65. The three sites employ 12,500 people between them.
66. No one wants to employ somebody who bad-mouths their former employer.
67. I'll engage in John's behavior if you decide to employ him.
68. The company employs no more than a couple of dozen people.
