Usually means: Hire someone to perform work.
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General (28 matching dictionaries)
  1. employ: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  2. employ: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  3. employ: Collins English Dictionary
  4. employ: Vocabulary.com
  5. Employ, employ, employ: Wordnik
  6. employ: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. employ: Wiktionary
  8. employ: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. employ: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. employ: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. Employ, employ: Dictionary.com
  12. employ: Online Etymology Dictionary
  13. employ: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. Employ: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Employ: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. employ: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. employ: Rhymezone
  18. employ: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. employ: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. employ: Free Dictionary
  21. employ: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. employ: Dictionary/thesaurus
  23. employ: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
  24. employ: Merriam-Webster.com
  25. employ(e) (m/f), employ(e) (m/f) (de bureau): AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  26. Employ: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)

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

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. employ: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. employ: Medical dictionary

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  1. employ: Idioms

(Note: See employed as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
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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