employ

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. fiil To retain (someone) as an employee.

   “Our company employs hundreds of people.”

2. fiil To provide (someone) with a new job; to hire.

   “Yesterday our local garage employed a new mechanic.”

3. fiil To use (someone or something) for a job or task.

   “The burglar employed a jemmy to get in.”

4. fiil To make busy; to preoccupy.

   “Let it not enter in your minde of loue: / Be merry, and imploy your chiefeſt thoughts / To courtſhip, and ſuch faire oſtents of loue / As ſhall conueniently become you there;”

5. isim The state of being an employee; employment.

   “The school district has six thousand teachers in its employ.”

6. isim An occupation.

   “Still he wrote on. He was too much engrossed in his own charmed employ not to be insensible for a time to all external influences: he might suffer afterwards, but now his mind was his kingdom.”

7. isim The act of employing someone or making use of something; employment.

   “Notwithstanding the employ of general and local bleeding, blisters, &c., the patient died on the fourth day after entrance.”