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Employed definitions

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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

EMPLOY'ED, pp. Occupied; fixed or engaged; applied in business; used in agency.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

adj
1: having your services engaged for; or having a job especially one that pays wages or a salary; "most of our graduates are employed" [ant: unemployed]
2: put to use

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Employ Em*ploy", v. t. [imp. & p. p. Employed; p. pr. & vb. n. Employing.] [F. employer, fr. L. implicare to fold into, infold, involve, implicate, engage; in + plicare to fold. See Ply, and cf. Imply, Implicate.] 1. To inclose; to infold. [Obs.] --Chaucer. 2. 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. This is a day in which the thoughts . . . ought to be employed on serious subjects. --Addison. (b) To occupy; as, to employ time in study. (c) 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. Jonathan . . . and Jahaziah . . . were employed about this matter. --Ezra x. 15. Thy vineyard must employ the sturdy steer To turn the glebe. --Dryden. To employ one's self, to apply or devote one's time and attention; to busy one's self. Syn: To use; busy; apply; exercise; occupy; engross; engage. See Use.

Moby Thesaurus

applied, at it, at work, busy, chartered, engaged, exercised, exerted, full of business, hard at it, hard at work, hired, hireling, in harness, leased, let, mercenary, occupied, on duty, on the go, on the hop, on the job, on the jump, on the move, on the run, paid, rented, secondhand, subleased, sublet, tied up, used, working