employed
adjective
[ ɪmˈplɔɪd ]
• (of a person) having a paid job.
• "up to 40 per cent of employed people are in part-time jobs"
Similar:
working,
in work,
in employment,
with a job,
holding down a job,
with a career,
professional,
career,
earning,
waged,
in gainful employment,
earning one's living,
breadwinning,
employ
verb
• give work to (someone) and pay them for it.
• "the firm employs 150 people"
Similar:
hire,
engage,
recruit,
take on,
take into employment,
secure the services of,
sign up,
sign,
put on the payroll,
enrol,
appoint,
commission,
enlist,
retain,
have in employment,
have on the payroll,
indenture,
apprentice,
take on board,
• make use of.
• "the methods they have employed to collect the data"
Similar:
use,
utilize,
make use of,
avail oneself of,
put into service,
implement,
apply,
exercise,
practise,
put into practice,
exert,
bring into play,
bring into action,
bring to bear,
draw on,
resort to,
turn to,
have recourse to,
take advantage of,
Origin:
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 century the word also had the senses ‘enfold, entangle’ and ‘imply’, derived directly from Latin; compare with implicate.
