Employ
To inclose; to infold.
To use; to have in service; to cause to be engaged in doing something; -- often followed by in, about, on, or upon, and sometimes by to; as: (a) To make use of, as an instrument, a means, a material, etc., for a specific purpose; to apply; as, to employ the pen in writing, bricks in building, words and phrases in speaking; to employ the mind; to employ one's energies.
To occupy; as, to employ time in study.
To have or keep at work; to give employment or occupation to; to intrust with some duty or behest; as, to employ a hundred workmen; to employ an envoy.
That which engages or occupies a person; fixed or regular service or business; employment.
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Employ Quotations
Employ thy time well, if thou meanest to gain leisure.
Benjamin Franklin
Employ your time in improving yourself by other men's writings, so that you shall gain easily what others have labored hard for.
Socrates
Men use thought only as authority for their injustice, and employ speech only to conceal their thoughts.
Voltaire
The skilful employer of men will employ the wise man, the brave man, the covetous man, and the stupid man.
Sun Tzu
The educator must believe in the potential power of his pupil, and he must employ all his art in seeking to bring his pupil to experience this power.
Alfred Adler
The question confronting the Church today is not any longer whether the man in the street can grasp a religious message, but how to employ the communications media so as to let him have the full impact of the Gospel message.
Pope John Paul II
So long as the laws remain such as they are today, employ some discretion: loud opinion forces us to do so; but in privacy and silence let us compensate ourselves for that cruel chastity we are obliged to display in public.
Marquis de Sade
How good is man's life, the mere living! How fit to employ all the heart and the soul and the senses forever in joy!
Robert Browning
We employ the mind to rule, the body to serve.
Sallust
There are three schoolmasters for everybody that will employ them - the senses, intelligent companions, and books.
Henry Ward Beecher
Employ Translations
employ in Afrikaans is gebruik
employ in Danish is tilbringe, bruge
employ in Dutch is aannemen, huren, aanwerven
employ in French is braquer, embaucher, employez, engager, employent
employ in Italian is occupare
employ in Latin is utor uti usus, usurpo, consumo
employ in Norwegian is ansette
employ in Portuguese is empregar, empregue, usar
employ in Spanish is colocar, usar
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