Crossword-Solution: EMPLOY
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Employ | v. t. | To inclose; to infold. |
| Employ | v. t. | To use; to have in service; to cause to be engaged in doing something; -- often followed by in, about, on, or upon, and sometimes by to; as: (a) To make use of, as an instrument, a means, a material, etc., for a specific purpose; to apply; as, to employ the pen in writing, bricks in building, words and phrases in speaking; to employ the mind; to employ one's energies. |
| Employ | v. t. | To occupy; as, to employ time in study. |
| Employ | v. t. | To have or keep at work; to give employment or occupation to; to intrust with some duty or behest; as, to employ a hundred workmen; to employ an envoy. |
| Employ | n. | That which engages or occupies a person; fixed or regular service or business; employment. |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
ETARE
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with EMPLOY (5)
The Governor then called a public assembly and addressed the citizens: “Of what folly have you been guilty? You have not hesitated to entrust your heads to a man, whom no one could employ to make even the shoes for their feet.” The Wolf and the Horse A WOLF coming out of a field of oats met a Horse and thus addressed him: “I would advise you to go into that field.
The staid, sober, thinking and industrious ones of our number would employ themselves in making corn-brooms, mats, horse-collars, and baskets; and another class of us would spend the time in hunting opossums, hares, and coons.
The service sectors, including public administration, account for 50% of GDP and employ nearly 20% of the labor force.
How sweet to die in such employ, to rest,— Sister and brother linked in love’s embrace— A sinless sinner, banned awhile on earth, But by the dead commended; and with them I shall abide for ever.
Term used by {samurai} for the {suit}s who employ them; succinctly expresses an attitude at least as common, though usually better disguised, among other subcultures of hackers.
Quotes with EMPLOY (3)
Speak softly and employ a huge man with a crowbar.
I would not employ an author to referee a Ping-Pong match. By their very nature they are biased and bloody-minded. Better put a fox in a henhouse than to ask an author to judge his peers. (in a letter to the Governor General about the GA's Literary Awards & his issue--among others--with the judging system, 1981)
For he lives twice who can at once employ, The present well, and e’en the past enjoy.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Boston Globe, Crossroads, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, NY Sun, NYT, Universal, USA TODAY, WP.
Used 53 times in crossword archives (1952–2025).