employing Definition

employ
verb employed, employing

1. To give work, usually paid work, to someone.

Thesaurus: hire, engage, contract, enlist, indenture, retain, take on, apprentice, commission.
2. To use.

Thesaurus: use, utilize, operate, spend, take up, manipulate, apply, exercise, exert, occupy, ply.

Derivative: employable
adj

Said of a person: suitable or able to be employed.

Derivative: employed
adj

Having a job; working.

Derivative: employer
noun

A person or company that employs workers.
Thesaurus: boss, owner, proprietor, patron, taskmaster; company, business, firm, establishment, outfit, organization.

Idiom: be employed in something

To have one's time and attention devoted to it.

Idiom: be in someone's employ

formal
To be employed by them.

Etymology: 15c: from French employer, from Latin implicare to enfold.