Definition of employ

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Employ (v. t.) To occupy; as, to employ time in study..

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Discharge :: Discharge (v. t.) Release or dismissal from an office, employment, etc.; dismission; as, the discharge of a workman by his employer..
Repositor :: Repositor (n.) An instrument employed for replacing a displaced organ or part.
Proctor :: Proctor (n.) One who is employed to manage to affairs of another.
Tellership :: Tellership (n.) The office or employment of a teller.
Press :: Press (n.) The art or business of printing and publishing; hence, printed publications, taken collectively, more especially newspapers or the persons employed in writing for them; as, a free press is a blessing, a licentious press is a curse..
Vacancy :: Vacancy (n.) Unemployed time; interval of leisure; time of intermission; vacation.
Staff :: Staff (n.) An establishment of officers in various departments attached to an army, to a section of an army, or to the commander of an army. The general's staff consists of those officers about his person who are employed in carrying his commands into execution. See Etat Major..
Schoolship :: Schoolship (n.) A vessel employed as a nautical training school, in which naval apprentices receive their education at the expense of the state, and are trained for service as sailors. Also, a vessel used as a reform school to which boys are committed by the courts to be disciplined, and instructed as mariners..
Freighter :: Freighter (n.) One employed in receiving and forwarding freight.
Employ :: Employ (v. t.) To use; to have in service; to cause to be engaged in doing something; -- often followed by in, about, on, or upon, and sometimes by to; as: (a) To make use of, as an instrument, a means, a material, etc., for a specific purpose; to apply; as, to employ the pen in writing, bricks in building, words and phrases in speaking; to employ the mind; to employ one's energies..
Engaged :: Engaged (a.) Occupied; employed; busy.
Curative :: Curative (v. t.) Relating to, or employed in, the cure of diseases; tending to cure..
Thermochemistry :: Thermochemistry (n.) That branch of chemical science which includes the investigation of the various relations existing between chemical action and that manifestation of force termed heat, or the determination of the heat evolved by, or employed in, chemical actions..
Bookselling :: Bookselling (n.) The employment of selling books.
Stereotypery :: Stereotypery (n.) The art, process, or employment of making stereotype plates..
Industry :: Industry (n.) Habitual diligence in any employment or pursuit, either bodily or mental; steady attention to business; assiduity; -- opposed to sloth and idleness; as, industry pays debts, while idleness or despair will increase them..
Sphere :: Sphere (n.) Circuit or range of action, knowledge, or influence; compass; province; employment; place of existence..
Manducatory :: Manducatory (a.) Pertaining to, or employed in, chewing..
Tarsiatura :: Tarsiatura (n.) A kind of mosaic in woodwork, much employed in Italy in the fifteenth century and later, in which scrolls and arabesques, and sometimes architectural scenes, landscapes, fruits, flowers, and the like, were produced by inlaying pieces of wood of different colors and shades into panels usually of walnut wood..
Pilot :: Pilot (n.) One employed to steer a vessel; a helmsman; a steersman.
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