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Employ
EMPLOY', v.t. [L. plico.]
1. To occupy the time, attention and labor of; to keep busy, or at work; to use. We employ our hands in labor; we employ our heads or faculties in study or thought; the attention is employed, when the mind is fixed or occupied upon an object; we employ time, when we devote it to an object. A portion of time should be daily employed in reading the scriptures, meditation and prayer; a great portion of life is employed to little profit or to very bad purposes.
2. To use as an instrument or means. We employ pens in writing, and arithmetic in keeping accounts. We employ medicines in curing diseases.
3. To use as materials in forming any thing. We employ timber, stones or bricks, in building; we employ wool, linen and cotton, in making cloth.
4. To engage in one's service; to use as an agent or substitute in transacting business; to commission and entrust with the management of one's affairs. The president employed an envoy to negotiate a treaty. Kings and States employ embassadors at foreign courts.
5. To occupy; to use; to apply or devote to an object; to pass in business; as, to employ time; to employ an hour, a day or a week; to employ one's life.
To employ one's self, is to apply or devote one's time and attention; to busy one's self.
EMPLOY', n. That which engages the mind, or occupies the time and labor of a person; business; object of study or industry; employment.
Present to grasp, and future still to find,
The whole employ of body and of mind.
1. Occupation, as art, mystery, trade, profession.
2. Public office; agency; service for another.
employ appears in definitions for these words:
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Abuse Abusing Accord Account Acolyte Active Activity Adjunct Administration Advice Advocate Amanuensis Anathema Angel Answer Apagogy Applause Application Applied Apply Apportion Architect Arduous Arrow-root Arundelian Ascetic Asphaltum Associate Attorney Avocation Badge Ballad-singer Ballatoon Banian Banker Banking Basanite Battery Beads-man Begin Beguards Besieger Besieging Best Bird-catcher Blood-hound Blower Brail Broker Bull Burgomaster Busily Business Busy But Call Calling Calogeri Calotte Cameo Capital Capitalist Cargo Carman Carrick-bend Cartel Cat Chain Changer Charact Charge Check Chief Choose Chrome Chrysoberyl Civil Clerk Coal-ship Coaster Coasting-vessel Coin Colleague College Collier Coloring Commissariate Commissioner Conductitious Constituent Constitute Contemplative Contemplator Controller Corporal Cost County Craft Credit Crier Culture Cunning Curate Curateship Cure Datary Decoy-duck Decoy-man Deliberative Delightfully Demiurge Denationalize Deputation Detaching Detachment Device Dextrous Direction Dirty Discard Discarding Discharge Disciple Disengage Dismiss Dismissed Dismission Dispensatory Disposable Dispose Disqualify Dissuasive Dive Dividend Do Draft-horse Draft-ox Dresser Drudge Dunner Dust-man Earing Earth Effectual Elect Election Element Elephant Embassador Embassy Embezzling Embusy Emergence Emissary Emolument Employ Employable Employer Employment En Encaustic Engage Engaged Engagement Engineer Enter Epiplocy Errantry Espionage Exercisable Exercise Exercised Exercising Expedient Expend Expending Expense Eye-servant Eye-service Factor Factorage Factory Factotum Fairy Faithless Fellow Fellow-worker Fender Fill Filler Fish Fisher Fisherboat Fisherman Flying-party Formation Fresh Frugal Frugality Full Function Fund Gain Galley Gasometer Genius Gin Girl Give Grudge Hand Handful Handicraftsman Hartshorn Heavy Herdman Hired Hireling Hirer Historiographer Historiography Hold Holder Horseboy Horsebreaker Houseline Hoy Humor Hunter Husband Hydrogen Idea Idle Idleness Idly Imagination Impersonal Imply Import Improve Improvement Inactively Inductive Industry Instrument Intently Intentness Interact Invention Irenarch Journeyman Knight Labor Laborious Laundress Leisurable Leisure Levite Levity Lie Line Locomotive Loosely Lose Losing Lost Low-thoughted Malt-dust Manufacturer Mateless Matter Mean Mechanic Mediocrity Merchantman Milkmaid Mineralist Ministry Misemploy Misemployment Misimprovement Misuse Mole-catcher Neglect Neologic Neological Netting News-monger Notary Nurse Object Occupation Occupier Occupy Occupying Office Once Open Oppressor Orator Ordinary Out Packet Packhorse Palatine Panderism Partner Passion Pataca Penitent Pensive Perdu Periphrase Pettifogger Place Play Ply Plying Poet-laureat Post Power Practice Precaution Prevail Prime Print Prison Private Proclaim Proctor Profess Profession Professionally Profit Profitably Proin Property Proportional Prostitute Prostitution Proveditor Purpose Pursuit Put Qualification Qualify Questuary Quietism Quinia Quit Quoin Raillery Raise Reagent Refusal Relentless Remain Reply Report Representative Retain Riding Robust Sabbath Sacrifical Sapper Sapphire Saving Scavenger Scout Sea-boy Sea-faring Sea-rover Sea-surgeon Secretary Sedentary Seducement Sedulous Self-devotement Seminary Sepoy Serf Servant Serve Service Set Shepherd Shifter Sinecure Singing-man Singing-woman Sit Slaughter-man Smith Smuggler Solicitor-general Spasmodic Spend Sphere Squadron Stalk Statesman Statesmanship Station Stay Stealth Steward Stock Strike Study Subterfuge Succedaneous Summoner Sunday Survey Swain Swallow-wort Tack Take Task Teach Team Telescope Temporal Tender Test Thought Thoughtful Tickbean Tillage Tilled Topping-lift Trackless Trade Tradesfolk Transport Trap Trifling Truant Truantship Trust Tuneless Turret Tutor Unactive Unapt Unburthen Underwork Underworking Unemployed Unimproved Unlikely Unoccupied Unplaced Unprofitable Unprofitably Unused Usance Use Used Usefully Vacancy Vacation Varnish Verboseness Vice-legate Victualer Vocation Wage Warp Warrantable Wax Wholly Wield Wife Winding-engine Wool-winder Work Workman Write
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