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.
is employing
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present progressiveof employ (3rd 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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Kudryashev’s short stint last year in the vanguard of Russia’s army offers a glimpse of the tactics that Russia is employing to eke out battlefield advances in Ukraine.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 12, 2026
Nvidia is employing that Apple model of full control in an entirely different market: AI computing.
From Barron's ● Mar. 19, 2026
The officers’ defense attorneys have argued Middleton is employing a “novel theory” and conflating a potential violation of police department policy with a crime.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 16, 2024
But half a century later, Nasa is employing private companies to do much more of the work.
From BBC ● Sep. 25, 2023
“But she is employing the literary conceits and techniques of a novel. And the meeting you speak of has already occurred—you have been reading it for the past quarter of an hour.”
From "Code Name Verity" by Elizabeth Wein
