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employed 音标拼音: [ɛmpl'ɔɪd] [ɪmpl'ɔɪd] pp. 使用 使用 employed adj 1: having your services engaged for; or having a job especially one that pays wages or a salary; " most of our graduates are employed" [ ant: { unemployed}] 2: put to useEmploy \ Em* ploy"\, v. t. [ imp. & p. p. { Employed}; p. pr. & vb. n. { Employing}.] [ F. employer, fr. L. implicare to fold into, infold, involve, implicate, engage; in plicare to fold. See { Ply}, and cf. { Imply}, { Implicate}.] 1. To inclose; to infold. [ Obs.] -- Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster] 2. 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. [ 1913 Webster] This is a day in which the thoughts . . . ought to be employed on serious subjects. -- Addison. ( b) To occupy; as, to employ time in study. ( c) To have or keep at work; to give employment or occupation to; to intrust with some duty or behest; as, to employ a hundred workmen; to employ an envoy. [ 1913 Webster] Jonathan . . . and Jahaziah . . . were employed about this matter. -- Ezra x. 15. [ 1913 Webster] Thy vineyard must employ the sturdy steer To turn the glebe. -- Dryden. [ 1913 Webster] { To employ one' s self}, to apply or devote one' s time and attention; to busy one' s self. Syn: To use; busy; apply; exercise; occupy; engross; engage. See { Use}. [ 1913 Webster] 33 Moby Thesaurus words for " employed": applied, at it, at work, busy, chartered, engaged, exercised, exerted, full of business, hard at it, hard at work, hired, hireling, in harness, leased, let, mercenary, occupied, on duty, on the go, on the hop, on the job, on the jump, on the move, on the run, paid, rented, secondhand, subleased, sublet, tied up, used, working
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