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• v. 雇用; 使用
• ［英］ v. 雇用 ( to provide with a job) ; 使用 ( to make use of)
• ［例］ The police had to employ fire-hoses to break up the crowd.

Webster Collegiate

I. transitive verb

• Etymology: Middle English emploien, from Anglo-French empleier, emploier, emplier to entangle, apply, make use of, from Latin implicare to enfold, involve, from in- + plicare to fold — more at ply
• Date: 15th century
• 1.
  • a. to make use of (someone or something inactive) <employ a pen for sketching>
  • b. to use (as time) advantageously <a job that employed her skills>
  • c.
    • (1) to use or engage the services of
    • (2) to provide with a job that pays wages or a salary <a company that employs fifty>
• 2. to devote to or direct toward a particular activity or person <employed all her energies to help the poor>
• Synonyms: see use
• ? employer noun

II. noun

• Date: 1666
• 1.
  • a. use, purpose
  • b. occupation, job
• 2. the state of being employed <in the city's employ>

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