employ

To retain (someone) as an employee.

Our company employs hundreds of people.

Andrew Houſtoun and Adam Muſhet, being Tackſmen of the Excize, did Imploy Thomas Rue to be their Collector, and gave him a Sallary of 30. pound Sterling for a year.

To provide (someone) with a new job; to hire.

Yesterday our local garage employed a new mechanic.

The management, who were close personal friends, had just employed a new chef.

To use (someone or something) for a job or task.

The burglar employed a jemmy to get in.

Valiant Othello, we muſt straight employ you, / Againſt the generall Enemy Ottoman.

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;

I heard the woods, and distant waters, roar; / Or heard them not, as happy as a Boy: / The pleasant season did my heart employ:

The state of being an employee; employment.

The school district has six thousand teachers in its employ.

If Siamese in the employ of British subjects offend against the laws of their country,

An occupation.

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.

The act of employing someone or making use of something; employment.

Notwithstanding the employ of general and local bleeding, blisters, &c., the patient died on the fourth day after entrance.