with obj.
1
- give work to (someone) and pay them for it雇用：
the firm employs 150 people
公司雇用了150人
with obj. and infinitive temporary staff can be employed to undertake much of the work.大量的工作可雇用临时工来做。
1.1
- keep occupied使从事; 使忙碌：
most of the newcomers are employed in developing the technology into a product.
大多数新来的人都在从事将这项技术转化为产品的工作。
2
- make use of用, 利用, 使用：
the methods they have employed to collect the data.
他们用来收集数据的方法。
in sing.
1- the state or fact of being employed for wages or a salary受雇：
I started work in the employ of a grocer and wine merchant.
我受雇于一个杂货和酒类经销商, 开始上班工作。
1.1
- archaic employment〈古〉工作, 职业：
her place of employ.
她工作的地方。
派生词
employability
nounemployable
adjective词源
late Middle English (formerly also as imploy)： from Old French employer, based on Latin implicari 'be involved in or attached to', passive form of implicare （see IMPLY）. In the 16th and 17th cent. the word also had the senses 'enfold, entangle' and 'imply', derived directly from Latin; compare with IMPLICATE.