Definition of Employ

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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

The skilful employer of men will employ the wise man, the brave man, the covetous man, and the stupid man.
Sun Tzu

Men use thought only as authority for their injustice, and employ speech only to conceal their thoughts.
Voltaire

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

There are three schoolmasters for everybody that will employ them - the senses, intelligent companions, and books.
Henry Ward Beecher

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

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

We do as much harm holding onto programs and people past their natural life span as we do when we employ massive organizational air strikes. However, destroying comes at the end of life's cycle, not as a first response.
Margaret J. Wheatley

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

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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