employ
verb (used with object)
to hire or engage the services of (a person or persons); provide employment for; have or keep in one's service.
am employing
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present progressiveof employ (1st person singular).present progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or state that is currently taking place in the immediate present.
Example Sentences
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Answer me now, and by the same means as I am employing, but dispatch not your answer if I show myself upon the ramparts.
From Love-at-Arms by Rafael Sabatini
I am employing all my leisure time in the prosecution of my studies.
From The Story of My Life Being Reminiscences of Sixty Years' Public Service in Canada by J. George (John George) Hodgins
"I assure you I am employing my life in a very agreeable manner just now," answered Owen, resting on his elbow, and glancing up from under the shadow of his straw hat.
From That Unfortunate Marriage, Vol. 2 by Frances Eleanor Trollope
While the peacemakers are gone I am employing time in reading Smith's 'Bible Dictionary,' and calculating different positions which have stood over in travelling.
From The Last Journals of David Livingstone, in Central Africa, from 1865 to His Death, Volume I (of 2), 1866-1868 by Horace Waller
"And I think it would be wise if you didn't tell your friend, the doctor, that I am employing you."
From The Green Rust by Edgar Wallace
