employ
To retain (someone) as an employee.
Verb 3 meanings
To retain (someone) as an employee.
“Our company employs hundreds of people.”
To use (someone or something) for a job or task.
“The burglar employed a jemmy to get in.”
To make busy; to preoccupy.
Noun 1 meaning
The state of being an employee; employment.
“The school district has six thousand teachers in its employ.”
Etymology
From late Middle English emploien, imploien, emplien (“to apply to a specific purpose”), from Anglo-Norman emploier, Old French emploiier (“to entangle, fabricate, to make use of”), ultimately from Latin implicāre (“to infold, entangle, involve, engage”), from in- (“in”) + plicāre (“to fold”).
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EMPLOY at a glance
EMPLOY has 6 letters and scores 13 points in Scrabble (E 1 + M 3 + P 3 + L 1 + O 1 + Y 4) and 15 in Words With Friends, before board bonuses. It ranks #7,443 by how often it appears in everyday English. It is valid in ENABLE, NWL2023, Collins/SOWPODS.
Rhymes with employ
All rhymes- DEPLOY12
- ALLOY8
- PLOY9
- REDEPLOY14
- SUPERALLOY15
- CLOY9
- ZIRCALOY22
- PERMALLOY16
- SAVELOY13
- REEMPLOY15
- ACCLOY13
- COEMPLOY17
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