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em·ploy (ĕm-ploí)

[Middle English emploien, from Old French emploier, from Latin implicāre, to involve, in-, in; see en–1, + plicāre, to fold.]

transitive verb: -ployed, -ploy·ing, -ploys. 

    1. To engage the services of; put to work: agreed to employ the job applicant.
    2. To provide with gainful work: factories that employ thousands.
  2. To put to use or service. See synonyms at use
  3. To devote (time, for example) to an activity or purpose: employed several months in learning Swahili.

noun 

  1. The state of being employed: in the employ of the city.
  2. Archaic Occupation.

derivatives

em·ploýa·biĺi·ty
noun
em·ploýa·ble
adjective
em·ploýer
noun