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employ

英 [ɪm'plɒɪ; em-] 美[ɪm'plɔɪ]

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近义词busy contract occupy use hire retain engage sign

反义词

vt. 使用，采用；雇用；使忙于，使从事于
n. 使用；雇用

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词态变化

第三人称单数: employs;过去式: employed;过去分词: employed;现在分词: employing;

中文词源

employ 雇用

em-, 进入，使。-ploy, 编织，卷入，词源同deploy, imply, implicate.即成为其中的一份子。

英英释意

1. the state of being employed or having a job;: "they are looking for employment"; "he was in the employ of the city"

英文词源

employ: employ: [15] Essentially, employ is the same word as imply [14] and implicate [16]. All three come ultimately from Latin implicāre ‘enfold, involve’, a compound verb formed from the prefix in- ‘in’ and plicāre ‘fold’ (source of English ply and related to English fold). This passed into Old French as emplier, which in turn was transmitted into English as imply; this originally retained the literal sense ‘enfold’, and it was only gradually that the metaphorical ‘involve as a necessary condition’ developed.

However, Old French emplier had a variant empleier, later emploier, which took a slightly different semantic route – from simply ‘involve’ to ‘involve in or apply to a particular purpose’. This was the sense in which English acquired it as employ.
=> fold, implicate, imply, ply
employ (v.): early 15c., "apply or devote (something to some purpose); expend or spend," from Old French emploiier (12c.) "make use of, apply; increase; entangle; devote," from Latin implicare "enfold, involve, be connected with, unite, associate," from assimilated form of in- (see in- (2)) + plicare "to fold" (see ply (v.1)). Imply, which is the same word, retains more of the original sense. Sense of "hire, engage" first recorded in English 1580s, from meaning "involve in a particular purpose," which arose in Late Latin. Related: Employed; employing; employable.
employ (n.): 1660s, "action of employing," from French emploi, from Middle French verb employer (see employ (v.)). From 1709 as "state of being employed."

同义词辨析

hire, employ, engage

这些动词均含"雇用"之意。

hire：普通用词，常指短期或长期雇用某人从事某一特定工作或一次性的工作，含强调为薪金而工作的意味。

employ：正式用词，侧重受雇者虽为薪金而工作，但工作固定共享有相当尊严。

engage可与hire换用，特指雇用专业人员。

use, apply, employ, utilize, avail, exploit

这些动词均含"使用，应用"之意。

use：普通用词，着重为达到某一目的而利用某人或某物。

apply：指将一事物运用于另一事物之上以发挥其有效作用。

employ：指使用处于消极状态或未被用过的人或物，可以与use换用，但强调进行选择、充分利用。

utilize：侧重有利可图或能达到某一实际目的。书面用词。

avail：通常指使用手边或就近的人或物以有利于自己。

exploit：强调充分利用。

考试真题

It is said that all of us employ a mix of both these types of planning.

Companies are employing in-house versions of Facebook and creating their own "app stores" to deliver software to employees.

It doesn't mean greater job security for the employed.

And now, most of the British public is familiar even with the extremes of Heston BlumenthaPs molecular gastronomy, a form of cooking that employs scientific methods to create the perfect dish.

On March 13, while on duty, Charles McLaughlin, a very careless driver employed by the company Lummis was involved in another accident.

Sun School employs no cooking or cleaning stuff,these jobs are done by students and teachers

For almost five centuries a very large supply of cod ( ' , 鳕鱼) provided abundant raw material for an industry which at its peak employed about 40,000 people, sustaining entire communities in Newfoundland.

A few years later, a large defense buildup finally provided a fiscal stimulus adequate to the economy's needs—and suddenly industry was eager to employ those unadaptable and untrained workers.

It's not only unsustainable for workers, but also for the companies that employ them.

American women who choose to be employed are far more likely to work full-time and to hold high-level jobs as manangers or professionals.

One in three employed women and one in ten employed men work part-time.

Automation makes it unnecessary to employ too many skilled workers.

The decline started in the 1950s, when manufacturing generated a sturdy 28% of the national income, or gross domestic product, and employed one-third of the workforce.

If you get a call and are asked if you're employed, and you say yes, you're employed

and employs barely 9% of the nation's workers.

This is part of the process of self-validation whereby we employ self-disclosures to seek support for our self-concept.

We use bonding humor to enhance our social connections* but we also may employ it as a way of excluding or rejecting an outsider

A few years later, a large defense buildup finally provided a fiscal stimulus adequate to the economy's needs—and suddenly industry was eager to employ those "unadaptable and untrained" workers.

It's no wonder these companies employ teams of people focused on engineering their services to be as engaging as possible.

According to the Dallas area cultural advocacy coalition, arts agencies employ more than 10, 000 people as full-or part-time employees or independent contractors.

Bertocchini agrees and hopes her team's findings might one day help employ the enzyme to break down plastics in landfills.

Modem methods of/for tracking polar bear populations have been employed only since the mid-1980s, and are expensive to perform consistently over a large area.

The likables' plays-well-with-others qualities strengthen schoolyard friendships, jump-start interpersonal skills and, when tapped early, are employed ever after in life and work.

The University of Adelaide employs a full-time staff of fire prevention professionals.

In fact, allowing non-lawyers to own shares in law firms would reduce costs and improve services to customers, by encouraging law firms to use technology and to employ professional managers to focus on improving firms’ efficiency.

Its lawmakers gave preliminary approval last week to a law that would make it a crime to employ ultra-thin models on runways.

Among other weaknesses, the measures cities must employ when left to tackle dirty air on their own are politically contentious, and therefore vulnerable.

In fact, allowing non-lawyers to own shares in law firms would reduce costs and improve services to customers, by encouraging law firms to use technology and to employ professional managers to focus on improving firms'efficiency.

Then I counter with another reasonable argument: that a higher minimum wage will force businesses to employ fewer people for less time.

We have a deep-seated need to feel good about ourselves and we naturally employ a number of self-enhancing strategies to achieve this.

实用场景例句

How many people does the company employ?: 这个公司雇用了多少人？

For the past three years he has been employed as a firefighter.: 三年来他一直受雇当消防员。

A number of people have been employed to deal with the backlog of work.: 已雇来一些人处理积压的工作。

He criticized the repressive methods employed by the country's government.: 他指责了这个国家政府采取的镇压手段。

The police had to employ force to enter the building.: 警察不得不强行进入大楼。

She was employed in making a list of all the jobs to be done.: 她忙着把要做的所有工作列一个清单。

The company employs 18 staff...: 公司雇用了18名员工。

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。

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。

...the vocabulary that she employs.: 她使用的词汇

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。

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。

Others hinted that he was in the employ of the KGB...: 其他人暗示他受雇于克格勃。

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。

If the farmers can get continuous sunshine, they should have a satisfactory harvest.: 天气如果继续好下去, 农民们就会得到满意的收获了.

The agent was in the employ of a foreign country.: 这个特工人员是外国雇佣的.

When did he leave your employ?: 他是什么时候不再受雇于你的?

Alexander is a racist who refuses to employ blacks.: 亚历山大是个种族歧视者,拒绝聘用黑人.

Why didn't you employ the new method?: 你们为什么不采用那个新方法呢 ?

He has been in the employ of the company for nearly forty years.: 他已经受雇于这家公司将近40年了.

How many workmen do you employ at your factory?: 你们厂雇用多少工人?

We employ aluminium for our cooking pots.: 我们用铝做饭锅.

Some enterprises owned by the whole people employ workers and staff originally belonging to collective enterprises.: 全民所有制企业里有集体所有制职工.

I'll engage for John's behaviour should you decide to employ him.: 如果你决定聘用约翰,我愿为他的行为担保.

We only employ female workers.: 我们只雇用女工.

She has to employ two gardeners to look after that huge garden.: 她要雇两个园丁来照料这个大花园.

I shouldn't employ them — they're just a bunch of amateurs.: 我不该雇用他们——简直是一群外行.

We employ her as an English interpreter.: 我们雇用她作英语翻译.

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