employed
adjective
given employment, or paid work; hired, especially permanently by inclusion on a payroll.
well-employed
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a word derived from
employed.
Example Sentences
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Basgallop dresses up basic horror premises with curlicues of mordant, deadpan humor, and creates an ambient pea soup of unease that, for his well-employed but economically insecure young characters, constitutes a reign of terror.
From New York Times ● Feb. 24, 2023
The lean and hungry appearance of this cent. per cent. worshipper of the golden calf, is well contrasted by the sleek, contented vacancy of so well-employed a legislator of this great empire.
From The Works of William Hogarth: In a Series of Engravings With Descriptions, and a Comment on Their Moral Tendency by John Trusler
These are so inadequate, when compared with the income of a well-employed barrister, that the state is deprived of the advantage of having the highest legal talent on the bench.
From Diary in America, Series One by Frederick Marryat
Sir, there are many in this colony who have great reason to distrust their senses, though none can be mistaken in believing they see Alderman Van Beverout in a well-employed man.
From The Water-Witch or, the Skimmer of the Seas by James Fenimore Cooper
The driver sat down on the running-board of the automobile and there ensued a well-employed silence.
From A Man's Hearth by Eleanor M. (Eleanor Marie) Ingram
