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The Meaning of employ
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(v. t.) To inclose; to infold.
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(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.
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(v. t.) To occupy; as, to employ time in study.
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(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.
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(n.) That which engages or occupies a person; fixed or regular service or business; employment.
Rhymes
ahoy
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alloy
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alroy
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annoy
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attaboy
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bellboy
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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
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foy
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foye
,
gilroy
,
goy
,
highboy
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hoi
,
hoy
,
hoye
,
illinois
,
iroquois
,
joy
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joye
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kilroy
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knoy
,
kroy
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laboy
,
lacroix
,
lafoy
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lamboy
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lavoy
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leroy
,
loy
,
loye
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malloy
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mccloy
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mccoy
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mcelroy
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mcilroy
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mcvoy
,
milroy
,
moy
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oi
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oie
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oy
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oye
,
playboy
,
ploy
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polloi
,
pomeroy
,
quemoy
,
redeploy
,
roi
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roy
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roye
,
savoy
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scheu
,
schoolboy
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sgroi
,
soy
,
stoy
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tolstoy
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tomboy
,
toy
,
troy
,
underemploy
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unemploy
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woy
,
yoy