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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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