EMPLOYED Definition & Meaning

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adjective

given employment, or paid work; hired, especially permanently by inclusion on a payroll:
The comedy revolves around a beauty salon owner and her newly employed male stylist.
applied or used; made use of:
In the study, drilling with flashcards was the least frequently employed strategy for language learning.
kept busy or engaged with some work or activity:
I never feel usefully employed in science except when I'm actually gathering data.
(of time, energies, etc.) occupied; devoted to some pursuit:
Working on my quilt gave me many happily employed hours.

verb

the simple past tense and past participle of employ.

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�y��vlog History and Origins

Origin of employed¹

First recorded in 1560–70; employ ( def ) + -ed ²( def ) for the adjective senses; employ ( def ) + -ed ¹( def ) for the verb sense

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Nan Zhong also works at Google, but is employed in a different department and said he had no role in his son’s hiring.

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“That’s a huge discrepancy,” said Harris, who employed five people and did not pay himself over the course of the shop’s lifetime.

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The union has been locked in contract negotiations with ASM Global since the bargaining agreement for workers directly employed by the company expired about seven months ago.

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She had employed Wall for a couple of months and, when Wall left, the online stalking began.

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Cooper told the BBC that checks were currently "not reaching" the so-called gig economy, where many workers are employed in temporary or casual roles.

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