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Employed Company Employs Person Pay Work Time Staff

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If a person or company e______ you, they pay you to work for them.If a person or company employs you, they pay you to work for them.
The company employs 18 staff.
More than 3,000 local workers are employed in the tourism industry.
Her first husband had been employed in a chemicals company.
word employ
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verb
If a person or company employs you, they pay you to work for them.
The company employs 18 staff.
More than 3,000 local workers are employed in the tourism industry.
Her first husband had been employed in a chemicals company.
If you employ certain methods, materials, or expressions, you use them.
The tactics the police are now to employ are definitely uncompromising.
...the vocabulary that she employs.
...the approaches and methods employed in the study.
If your time is employed in doing something, you are using the time you have to do that thing.
Your time could be usefully employed in attending to professional matters.
The journalists would be better employed in explaining how the costs can be justified.
inflections employsemployingemployed
cefr-level A2

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