Usually means: Utilizes services or labor of.
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General (9 matching dictionaries)
  1. employs: Merriam-Webster
  2. employs: Collins English Dictionary
  3. employs: Vocabulary.com
  4. Employs, employs, employs: Wordnik
  5. employs: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. employs: Wiktionary
  7. employs: Dictionary.com
  8. employs: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. employs: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. employs: Legal dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. employs: Idioms

(Note: See employ as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (employ)

verb:  To retain (someone) as an employee.
verb:  (rare) To provide (someone) with a new job; to hire.
verb:  To use (someone or something) for a job or task.
verb:  To make busy; to preoccupy.
noun:  The state of being an employee; employment.
noun:  (archaic) An occupation.
noun:  (obsolete) The act of employing someone or making use of something; employment.
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