English Dictionary

employ

/ɪmˈplɔɪ/

verb

To hire (somebody for work or a job). / To use (somebody for a job, or something for a task). / To make busy.

They employ over 100 workers at their factory.

意味（1）

To hire (somebody for work or a job).

Yesterday our local garage employed a new mechanic.

意味（2）

To use (somebody for a job, or something for a task).

The burglar employed a jemmy to get in.

意味（3）

To make busy.

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;