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Employ Employed Time Sb Ed ɪmˈplɔɪ Job Sth

The word "employ" as a verb means to hire someone by paying them, or to use a method or skill. It can also refer to spending one's time on a task. Additionally, "in the employ of" signifies working under someone's direction.

Employ (verb) means to pay someone to work for you, or to use something for a particular purpose. It can also mean to spend time doing something. The phrase "in the employ of" means working for someone.

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/ɪmplɔ͟ɪ/
1
[VERB 动词]雇用 If a person or company employs you, they pay you to work for them.
  [V n]
  [be V-ed in/as n]
  [V-ed]
  [Also V n to-inf]
  • The company employs 18 staff...

    公司雇用了18名员工。

  • More than 3,000 local workers are employed in the tourism industry...

    3,000余名当地人受雇于旅游业。

  • The government counted 27,600,000 employed persons in West Germany.

    据政府统计,西德当时的就业人数为2,760万人。

2
[VERB 动词]使用;采用 If you employ certain methods, materials, or expressions, you use them.
  [V n]
  [V-ed]
  [Also V n as n]
  • The tactics the police are now to employ are definitely uncompromising.

    警方目前即将采取的策略明显很强硬。

  • ...the vocabulary that she employs.

    她使用的词汇

  • ...the approaches and methods employed in the study.

    研究中使用的思路和方法

3
[VERB 动词]利用,花费(时间) If your time is employed in doing something, you are using the time you have to do that thing.
  [be V-ed in -ing/n]
  [usu passive]
  • Your time could be usefully employed in attending to professional matters...

    你可以有效地利用时间处理一些专业问题。

  • The journalists would be much better employed in trying to explain to us how the astronomical legal costs of the cases can be justified.

    记者们最好花时间向我们说明为什么诉讼费高得惊人。

4
[PHRASE 短语]受雇于 If you are in the employ of someone or something, you work for them.
  [FORMAL 正式]
  • Others hinted that he was in the employ of the KGB...

    其他人暗示他受雇于克格勃。

  • Those in his employ were careful never to enrage him.

    在他手底下干活的人都非常小心绝不去触怒他。


Oxford em·ploy / ɪmˈplɔɪ ; NAmE ɪmˈplɔɪ /
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noun
employ employs employed employing
verb 1 to give sb a job to do for payment 雇用 employsb How many people does the company employ? 这家公司雇用了多少人? employsb as sth For the past three years he has been employed as a firefighter. 三年来他一直受雇当消防员。 employsb to do sth A number of people have been employed to deal with the backlog of work. 已雇来一些人处理积压的工作。 collocationsat
job
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self-employed
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unemployed
2 employsth ( formal) to use sth such as a skill, method, etc. for a particular purpose 应用;运用;使用 He criticized the repressive methods employed by the country's government. 他指责了这个国家政府采取的镇压手段。 The police had to employ force to enter the building. 警察不得不强行进入大楼。 IDIOM be employed in doing sth if a person or their time is employed in doing sth,the person spends time doing that thing 从事于,忙于(做某事) She was employed in making a list of all the jobs to be done. 她忙着把要做的所有工作列一个清单。
noun [uncountable ] IDIOM in sb's emˈploy | in the emˈploy of sb ( formal) working for sb; employed by sb 替某人工作;为某人所雇用 em·ploy / ɪmˈplɔɪ ; NAmE ɪmˈplɔɪ /
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employem‧ploy1 /ɪmˈplɔɪ/ ●●● S3 W2 verb [transitive]
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1to pay someone to work for you:  The factory employs over 2,000 people.employ somebody as something Kelly is employed as a mechanic.employ somebody to do something We have been employed to look at ways of reducing waste.RegisterIn everyday English, people usually say give someone a job rather than employ someone, and have a job rather than be employed:· They gave him a job delivering furniture.· He has a job at the factory.2to use a particular object, method, skill etc in order to achieve somethingemploy a method/technique/tactic etc The report examines teaching methods employed in the classroom. see thesaurus at
use
RegisterIn everyday English, people usually say use a method rather than employ a method.
3formal to spend your time doing a particular thingbe employed in (doing) something Her days are employed in gardening and voluntary work.GRAMMAR Employ is usually passive in this meaning.
employ1 verb
employ2 noun
employemploy2 noun
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in somebody’s employ old-fashioned working for someone:  He had a number of servants in his employ.
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employ

[ɪmˈplɔɪ]employed, employing, employs

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employed[4496] employing[700] employs[594]
使用(64%),雇佣(36%)
n.使用;雇用
vt.使用,采用;雇用;使忙于,使从事于

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