employed
given employment, or paid work; hired, especially permanently by inclusion on a payroll: The comedy revolves around a beauty salon owner and her newly employed male stylist.
applied or used; made use of: In the study, drilling with flashcards was the least frequently employed strategy for language learning.
kept busy or engaged with some work or activity: I never feel usefully employed in science except when I'm actually gathering data.
(of time, energies, etc.) occupied; devoted to some pursuit: Working on my quilt gave me many happily employed hours.
the simple past tense and past participle of employ.
Origin of employed
1Other words from employed
- de-em·ployed, adjective
- well-em·ployed, adjective
Words Nearby employed
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How to use employed in a sentence
Models in Israel will have to maintain a BMI of 18.5 or higher if they want to stay employed.
How Skinny Is Too Skinny? Israel Bans ‘Underweight’ Models | Carrie Arnold | January 8, 2015 | THE DAILY BEASTInevitably, the old visceral “hands-on” flying skills, no longer much employed by pilots, have atrophied like an unused limb.
Flight 8501 Poses Question: Are Modern Jets Too Automated to Fly? | Clive Irving | January 4, 2015 | THE DAILY BEASTSo was the importance of protest itself, which he vowed to protect from the heavy-handed policies employed by his predecessors.
Eric Garner Protesters Have a Direct Line to City Hall | Jacob Siegel | December 11, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTIn fact, the estrogen that they employed did worse than castrate the subject—it could act as a cerebral depressant.
The Castration of Alan Turing, Britain’s Code-Breaking WWII Hero | Clive Irving | November 29, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTApparently, the Major Case Squad is employed when homicides are fresh, East St. Louis Det. Gilda Johnson told me.
The Duchess had also a tent for their sick men; so that we had a small town of our own here, and every body employed.
But not only has the name tobacco and the implements employed in its use caused much discussion but also the origin of the plant.
Tobacco; Its History, Varieties, Culture, Manufacture and Commerce | E. R. Billings.If wealth were always thus employed, it were a pity that great fortunes are not more numerous.
Glances at Europe | Horace GreeleyThe commander-in-chief still kept him attached to the headquarter staff, and constantly employed him on special service.
Napoleon's Marshals | R. P. Dunn-PattisonNot more than one adult worker in ten—so at least it might with confidence be estimated—is employed on necessary things.
The Unsolved Riddle of Social Justice | Stephen Leacock
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