1. employ - Noun
2. employ - Verb
To inclose; to infold.
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.
To occupy; as, to employ time in study.
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.
That which engages or occupies a person; fixed or regular service or business; employment.
Source: Webster's dictionaryWe endeavour to employ only symmetrical figures, such as should not only be an aid to reasoning, through the sense of sight, but should also be to some extent elegant in themselves. John Venn
How good is man's life, the mere living! How fit to employ all the heart and the soul and the senses forever in joy! Robert Browning
The theatre is supremely fitted to say: 'Behold! These things are.' Yet most dramatists employ it to say: 'This moral truth can be learned from beholding this action.' Thornton Wilder
He who knows not how to employ his leisure hath more cares on his mind than the most busy of busily-engaged men. Latin Proverb
If you suspect someone, don't employ them; if you employ someone, don't suspect them. Chinese Proverb
He who has money to throw away, let him employ workmen, and not stand by. Italian Proverb