Synonyms for employ
ɛmˈplɔɪem·ploy

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1. employnoun

   Synonyms:
   employment, hire

2. employnoun

   To give someone work or a job.

   The school district has six thousand teachers in its employ.

   Synonyms:
   hire, employment

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1. employ

   In general terms it may be said that to employ is to devote to one's purpose, to use is to render subservient to one's purpose; what is used is viewed as more absolutely an instrument than what is employed; a merchant employs a clerk; he uses pen and paper; as a rule, use is not said of persons, except in a degrading sense; as, the conspirators used him as a go-between. Hence the expression common in some religious circles "that God would use me" is not to be commended; it has also the fault of representing the human worker as absolutely a passive and helpless instrument; the phrase is altogether unscriptural; the Scripture says, "We are laborers together with (co-workers with) God." That which is used is often consumed in the using, or in familiar phrase used up; as, we used twenty tons of coal last winter; in such cases we could not substitute employ. A person may be employed in his own work or in that of another; in the latter case the service is always understood to be for pay. In this connection employ is a word of more dignity than hire; a general is employed in his country's service; a mercenary adventurer is hired to fight a tyrant's battles. It is unsuitable, according to present usage, to speak of hiring a pastor; the Scripture, indeed, says of the preacher, "The laborer is worthy of his hire;" but this sense is archaic, and hire now implies that the one hired works directly and primarily for the pay, as expressed in the noun "hireling;" a Pastor is properly said to be called, or when the business side of the transaction is referred to, engaged, or possibly employed, at a certain salary.

   Synonyms:
   call, engage, engross, hire, make use of, use, use up

   Preposition:
   Employ in, on, upon, or about a work, business, etc.; for a purpose; at a stipulated salary.

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1. employ

   Synonyms:
   reapply, economize, occupy, engage, engross

   Antonyms:
   discard, dismiss, misuse, misemploy

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1. employment, employverb

   the state of being employed or having a job

   "they are looking for employment"; "he was in the employ of the city"

   Synonyms:
   use, utilisation, exercise, employment, usage, work, utilization, engagement

2. use, utilize, utilise, apply, employverb

   put into service; make work or employ for a particular purpose or for its inherent or natural purpose

   "use your head!"; "we only use Spanish at home"; "I can't use this tool"; "Apply a magnetic field here"; "This thinking was applied to many projects"; "How do you utilize this tool?"; "I apply this rule to get good results"; "use the plastic bags to store the food"; "He doesn't know how to use a computer"

   Synonyms:
   lend oneself, use, practice, give, hold, utilise, put on, engage, hire, enforce, implement, expend, utilize, go for, apply, habituate

3. hire, engage, employverb

   engage or hire for work

   "They hired two new secretaries in the department"; "How many people has she employed?"

   Synonyms:
   rent, prosecute, occupy, use, engross, charter, mesh, utilise, operate, absorb, engage, affiance, hire, betroth, lock, take, wage, pursue, lease, utilize, apply, plight, enlist

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1. make productive

   Submitted by anonymous on December 30, 2019  

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1. employverb

   Synonyms:
   busy, engage, engross, exercise, occupy

2. employverb

   Synonyms:
   use, apply, make use of

3. employverb

   Synonyms:
   entrust with an agency, enlist in one's service, give employment to

4. employnoun

   Synonyms:
   EMPLOYMENT

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1. List of paraphrases for "employ":

   hire, use, employing, recruit, hiring, employment

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1. New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie:

   The reason we’re not dealing with immigration as strongly as we need to be in my opinion is because of the Chamber of Commerce crowd, because they want to employ illegal folks and they don’t want to use E-Verify.

2. Katherine Zimmerman:

   ISIS has made Al Qaeda seem less radical, less extreme, only because Al Qaeda will not employ the barbaric tactics that ISIS does to coerce and win loyalty through fear. Yet they seek the same goal, the problem with focusing on just ISIS or just Al Qaeda is that the U.S. has missed the real enemy—the Salafi-jihadi movement—of which Al Qaeda and ISIS are two global organizations.

3. Judy Murray:

   If you're there with your children and you want to go and watch your partner playing, you need to know that your children are safe, it's not every player that has the money to employ an entourage of nannies -- the top ones can, but not the next level, so it's very important.

4. Christopher Chivvis:

   France can be one of the most aggressive countries in the world when it comes to striking terrorist groups overseas. president Hollande has considerable capability at his disposal, including advanced airpower, highly trained special forces, and land and naval assets. France needs support of NATO allies and especially the United States to employ these capabilities to their fullest, however.

5. Bill Cassidy:

   Refineries employ thousands of energy workers in Louisiana, and increasing their compliance costs will put jobs in jeopardy.