employed

Speech parts

1. employed - Adjective

2. employed - Verb

4. employed - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

of Employ

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

utilized utilised used working active involved operating running sublet paid apply performing engaged occupied nominated

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Antonyms

unemployed free dead cancelled inert inactive

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Phrases with the word

not employed be employed become employed actively employed servant employed to look after horses self-employed farmer

Examples

The direct use of physical force is so poor a solution to the problem of limited resources that it is commonly employed only by small children and great nations. David Friedman

Editor: a person employed by a newspaper, whose business it is to separate the wheat from the chaff, and to see that the chaff is printed. Elbert Hubbard

Insults are the arguments employed by those who are in the wrong. Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Marx, as we have seen, solved it by declaring capital to be a different thing from product, and maintaining that it belonged to society and should be seized by society and employed for the benefit of all alike. Benjamin Tucker

A great many people now reading and writing would be better employed keeping rabbits. Edith Sitwell

The past history of our globe must be explained by what can be seen to be happening now. No powers are to be employed that are not natural to the globe, no action to be admitted except those of which we know the principle. James Hutton

Close letter words and terms

employable employable people employe employed basis employed character employed in