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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I am employing a laboriously careful schoolmaster, who does the tabulating and dividing into two great cohorts, more carefully than I can.
From More Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 1 by Sir Francis Darwin
Here I am employing my knee as a desk, a position that is not very natural to me, and by no means comfortable.
From A Confederate Girl's Diary by Sarah Morgan Dawson
"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
"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
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
