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EMPLOYED
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Having your services engaged for; or having a job especially one that pays wages or a salary
Example:
most of our graduates are employed
Classified under:
Similar:
engaged (having services contracted for)
hired (having services engaged for a fee)
on the job; working (actively engaged in paid work)
Also:
busy (actively or fully engaged or occupied)
Antonym:
unemployed (not engaged in a gainful occupation)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Put to use
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Similar:
used (employed in accomplishing something)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
Past simple / past participle of the verb employ
Context examples:
He furnished me with a plan of the house, and he told me that in the forenoon the study was always empty, as the secretary was employed up here.
(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Known to have been employed in an office in Leadenhall Street.
(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Observing his second daughter employed in trimming a hat, he suddenly addressed her with: I hope Mr. Bingley will like it, Lizzy.
(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)
This interpreter was a person employed to transact affairs with the Hollanders.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
Oh, no! not if they knew the man was properly employed.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
Can either of us be more meetly employed?
(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)
I derived benefit from the task: it had kept my head and hands employed, and had given force and fixedness to the new impressions I wished to stamp indelibly on my heart.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
“Let us think of those among our absent friends who are more cheerfully employed,” cried Emma.
(Emma, by Jane Austen)
I paused some time to reflect on all he had related and the various arguments which he had employed.
(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
A characteristic of a treatment regimen employed as a comparator against which the study treatment is evaluated.
(Control Type, NCI Thesaurus)
