employ

noun

1. the state of being employed or having a job

e.g. they are looking for employment
he was in the employ of the city

Synonym: employment

employ

verb

1. put into service
make work or employ for a particular purpose or for its inherent or natural purpose

e.g. use your head!
we only use Spanish at home
I can't use this tool
Apply a magnetic field here
This thinking was applied to many projects
How do you utilize this tool?
I apply this rule to get good results
use the plastic bags to store the food
He doesn't know how to use a computer

Synonym: useutilizeutiliseapply

2. engage or hire for work

e.g. They hired two new secretaries in the department
How many people has she employed?

Synonym: hireengage

1. 雇用
If a person or company employs you, they pay you to work for them.

e.g. The company employs 18 staff...
公司雇用了18名员工。
e.g. More than 3,000 local workers are employed in the tourism industry...
3,000余名当地人受雇于旅游业。

2. 使用;采用
If you employ certain methods, materials, or expressions, you use them.

e.g. The tactics the police are now to employ are definitely uncompromising.
警方目前即将采取的策略明显很强硬。
e.g. ...the vocabulary that she employs.
她使用的词汇

3. 利用，花费（时间）
If your time is employed in doing something, you are using the time you have to do that thing.

e.g. Your time could be usefully employed in attending to professional matters...
你可以有效地利用时间处理一些专业问题。
e.g. The journalists would be much better employed in trying to explain to us how the astronomical legal costs of the cases can be justified.
记者们最好花时间向我们说明为什么诉讼费高得惊人。

4. 受雇于
If you are in the employ of someone or something, you work for them.

e.g. Others hinted that he was in the employ of the KGB...
其他人暗示他受雇于克格勃。
e.g. Those in his employ were careful never to enrage him.
在他手底下干活的人都非常小心绝不去触怒他。

1. 雇用,利用,使用：empirical 实验上的 | employ 雇用,利用,使用 | empower 授权与

2. 使用：subjected to 经过~,易于~,进行~ | employ 使用 | handling 操作