单词 | re-employ |
释义 | re-employv. transitive. To employ or make use of again; to take (a person) back into employment. ΚΠ 1603 Lady A. Stuart Let. 9 Mar. (1994) 158 I..will..yeild hir Majesty more due thanckes for..choosing and after upon my humble suite reemploying you. a1644 F. Quarles Shepheards Oracles (1646) i. 12 Make Britannus happy to enjoy thee, Vntill thy pleased God shall re-imploy thee. 1707 J. Spotiswood Introd. Knowl. Stile Writs Scotl. 154 It is provided, that such Sums as shall be uplifted, shall be re-employed, always with the burden of the Provision foresaid. 1775 J. Ferguson Decisions Court of Session 1738–52 352 That he re-employ the money in the same terms as devised by the bond at the sight of the Ordinary on the bills. 1854 Southern Literary Messenger 20 267 Good night to my pen, which (Heaven permitting) shall be re-employed to-morrow on its present subject. 1883 R. L. Stevenson Silverado Squatters 147 Begging me to re-employ him again. 1904 Polit. Sci. Q. 19 iv. 734 The packers agreed to re-employ the strikers as rapidly as places could be found. 1965 Listener 1 July 17/1 No other club was then allowed to employ him, although his own club had no obligation to re-employ him. 2004 F. Gygi in Matters of Confl. vi. 84 A French steel helmet re-employed as a flower pot drew a lot of attention. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < v.1603 |
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