employ
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- (transitive) If you employ someone, you pay them to do a job.
- The tanning company currently employs over 240 people in Caledonia.
- She had been employed by the hospital as a nurse for only four months.
- (transitive) If you employ something, you use it.
- Various methods are employed to change the way it looks.
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- If you have someone in your employ, you are paying them to do a job.