employ

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. The state of being an employee; employment.
    — The school district has six thousand teachers in its employ.
  2. An occupation. archaic
    — Still he wrote on. He was too much engrossed in his own charmed employ not to be insensible for a time to all external influences: he might suffer afterwards, but now his mind was his kingdom.
  3. The act of employing someone or making use of something; employment. obsolete
    — Notwithstanding the employ of general and local bleeding, blisters, &c., the patient died on the fourth day after entrance.
动词 v.
  1. To retain (someone) as an employee.
    — Our company employs hundreds of people.
  2. To provide (someone) with a new job; to hire. rare
    — Yesterday our local garage employed a new mechanic.
  3. To use (someone or something) for a job or task.
    — The burglar employed a jemmy to get in.
  4. To make busy; to preoccupy.
    — Let it not enter in your minde of loue: / Be merry, and imploy your chiefeſt thoughts / To courtſhip, and ſuch faire oſtents of loue / As ſhall conueniently become you there;

词形变化

employs present,singular,third-person employing participle,present employed participle,past employed past imploy alternative,obsolete employs plural imploy alternative,obsolete

词汇关系

近义词
apply appoint bestow brook commission commit employ exercise exploit handle make use ply put to use spend suborn take advantage of use utilize wield
反义词
discard disuse shun surrender
上位词
choose select
下位词
hire put to good use
衍生词
disemploy employable employ a steam engine to crack a nut employed employer employless employment malemploy misemploy nonemploying overemploy preemploy reemploy re-employemployee unemploy
相关词
apply employé implicate imply manipulate

词源

词源 1
From late Middle English emploien, imploien, emplien (“to apply to a specific purpose”), from Anglo-Norman emploier, Old French emploiier (“to entangle, fabricate, to make use of”), ultimately from Latin implicāre (“to infold, entangle, involve, engage”), from in- (“in”) + plicāre (“to fold”). Doublet of imply and implicate.
词源 2
Borrowed from French emploi (“job, employment”), the deverbal from employer (“to put to use, to employ”), first attested in the late 17th century.
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