单词 | employ |
释义 | employ /em ploy"/, v.t. 1. to hire or engage the services of (a person or persons); provide employment for; have or keep in one's service: This factory employs thousands of people. 2. to keep busy or at work; engage the attentions of: He employs himself by reading after work. 3. to make use of (an instrument, means, etc.); use; apply: to employ a hammer to drive a nail. 4. to occupy or devote (time, energies, etc.): I employ my spare time in reading. I employ all my energies in writing. n. 5. employment; service: to be in someone's employ. [1425-75; late ME employen < AF, MF emploier << L implicare to enfold (LL: to engage); see IMPLICATE] |
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