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The Meaning of employ

  • (v. t.) To inclose; to infold.
  • (v. t.) To use; to have in service; to cause to be engaged in doing something; -- often followed by in, about, on, or upon, and sometimes by to; as: (a) To make use of, as an instrument, a means, a material, etc., for a specific purpose; to apply; as, to employ the pen in writing, bricks in building, words and phrases in speaking; to employ the mind; to employ one's energies.
  • (v. t.) To occupy; as, to employ time in study.
  • (v. t.) To have or keep at work; to give employment or occupation to; to intrust with some duty or behest; as, to employ a hundred workmen; to employ an envoy.
  • (n.) That which engages or occupies a person; fixed or regular service or business; employment.

Rhymes

ahoy , alloy , alroy , annoy , attaboy , bellboy , bolshoi , boy , boye , brayboy , broy , busboy , carboy , choi , choy , cloy , convoy , corduroy , cowboy , coy , coye , croix , croy , deboy , decoy , dejoy , deploy , destroy , doi , doughboy , elroy , enjoy , fauntleroy , fitzroy , flournoy , floy , foy , foye , gilroy , goy , highboy , hoi , hoy , hoye , illinois , iroquois , joy , joye , kilroy , knoy , kroy , laboy , lacroix , lafoy , lamboy , lavoy , leroy , loy , loye , malloy , mccloy , mccoy , mcelroy , mcilroy , mcvoy , milroy , moy , oi , oie , oy , oye , playboy , ploy , polloi , pomeroy , quemoy , redeploy , roi , roy , roye , savoy , scheu , schoolboy , sgroi , soy , stoy , tolstoy , tomboy , toy , troy , underemploy , unemploy , woy , yoy