Synonyms for employ
ɛmˈplɔɪem·ploy

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1. employnoun

   Synonyms:
   employment, hire

2. employnoun

   To give someone work or a job.

   The school district has six thousand teachers in its employ.

   Synonyms:
   hire, employment

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1. employ

   In general terms it may be said that to employ is to devote to one's purpose, to use is to render subservient to one's purpose; what is used is viewed as more absolutely an instrument than what is employed; a merchant employs a clerk; he uses pen and paper; as a rule, use is not said of persons, except in a degrading sense; as, the conspirators used him as a go-between. Hence the expression common in some religious circles "that God would use me" is not to be commended; it has also the fault of representing the human worker as absolutely a passive and helpless instrument; the phrase is altogether unscriptural; the Scripture says, "We are laborers together with (co-workers with) God." That which is used is often consumed in the using, or in familiar phrase used up; as, we used twenty tons of coal last winter; in such cases we could not substitute employ. A person may be employed in his own work or in that of another; in the latter case the service is always understood to be for pay. In this connection employ is a word of more dignity than hire; a general is employed in his country's service; a mercenary adventurer is hired to fight a tyrant's battles. It is unsuitable, according to present usage, to speak of hiring a pastor; the Scripture, indeed, says of the preacher, "The laborer is worthy of his hire;" but this sense is archaic, and hire now implies that the one hired works directly and primarily for the pay, as expressed in the noun "hireling;" a Pastor is properly said to be called, or when the business side of the transaction is referred to, engaged, or possibly employed, at a certain salary.

   Synonyms:
   call, engage, engross, hire, make use of, use, use up

   Preposition:
   Employ in, on, upon, or about a work, business, etc.; for a purpose; at a stipulated salary.

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1. employ

   Synonyms:
   reapply, economize, occupy, engage, engross

   Antonyms:
   discard, dismiss, misuse, misemploy

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1. employment, employverb

   the state of being employed or having a job

   "they are looking for employment"; "he was in the employ of the city"

   Synonyms:
   use, utilisation, exercise, employment, usage, work, utilization, engagement

2. use, utilize, utilise, apply, employverb

   put into service; make work or employ for a particular purpose or for its inherent or natural purpose

   "use your head!"; "we only use Spanish at home"; "I can't use this tool"; "Apply a magnetic field here"; "This thinking was applied to many projects"; "How do you utilize this tool?"; "I apply this rule to get good results"; "use the plastic bags to store the food"; "He doesn't know how to use a computer"

   Synonyms:
   lend oneself, use, practice, give, hold, utilise, put on, engage, hire, enforce, implement, expend, utilize, go for, apply, habituate

3. hire, engage, employverb

   engage or hire for work

   "They hired two new secretaries in the department"; "How many people has she employed?"

   Synonyms:
   rent, prosecute, occupy, use, engross, charter, mesh, utilise, operate, absorb, engage, affiance, hire, betroth, lock, take, wage, pursue, lease, utilize, apply, plight, enlist

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1. make productive

   Submitted by anonymous on December 30, 2019  

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1. employverb

   Synonyms:
   busy, engage, engross, exercise, occupy

2. employverb

   Synonyms:
   use, apply, make use of

3. employverb

   Synonyms:
   entrust with an agency, enlist in one's service, give employment to

4. employnoun

   Synonyms:
   EMPLOYMENT

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1. List of paraphrases for "employ":

   hire, use, employing, recruit, hiring, employment

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1. Rachel Kyte:

   I personally think it is outrageous that with all of the capabilities we have, we've got women who have the choice of imperiling their children's health or eating because they have no alternative but unclean cooking. Or the entrepreneur that can't employ any more people because his power is one hour on, six hours off, so yes, we're going to get this done earlier.

2. Qin Jun:

   It has an experimental element, we will employ fewer people and use more technology.

3. Samuel Johnson:

   There is no observation more frequently made by such as employ themselves in surveying the conduct of mankind, than that marriage, though the dictate of nature, and the institution of Providence, is yet very often the cause of misery, and that those who enter into that state can seldom forbear to express their repentance, and their envy of those whom either chance or caution hath withheld from it.

4. Walter Dunn .:

   Even clinicians would have a difficult time diagnosing an excited delirium, when you employ ketamine you better be darn sure that this is excited delirium and not something else.

5. Dee W. Hock:

   Never hire or promote in your own image. It is foolish to replicate your strength and idiotic to replicate your weakness. It is essential to employ, trust, and reward those whose perspective, ability, and judgment are radically different from yours. It is also rare, for it requires uncommon humility, tolerance, and wisdom.