Employ

Definition

employ /Çm'plↄÇ/ v ၁။ ~ sb (as sth) အလုပ္ခန္႔သည္။ ငွားရမ္းသည္။ She hasn't been employed (ie has not had a job) for six months now. ❍ We employ a firm of management consultants. ❍ The company employs mainly women. ❍ He's employed on the oil rigs. ❍ She's employed as a shop assistant. ❍ They employed him to look after the baby. ၂။ ~ sth (as sth) ( fml ) အသံုးျပဳသည္။ အသံုးခ်သည္။ I feel that my time could be better employed. ❍ He was busily employed in cleaning his shoes. ❍ He employed his knife as a lever. ❍ The police had to employ force to enter the house. n [U] ( fml ) အလုပ္ထမ္းေဆာင္ျခင္း၊ ခန္႔အပ္ျခင္း။ How long has she been in your employ (ie employed by you)? ❏ employable /-ǝbl/ adj အလုပ္ခန္႔ရန္ သင့္ေတာ္ေသာ။ training schemes to make more people employable. ❏ employee /Çm'plↄÇi:/ n အလုပ္သမား။ လုပ္သား။ The firm has over 500 employees. ❏ employer n အလုပ္ရွင္။ They're not good employers (ie They treat their workers badly).

Examples

1. They employ a nanny
2. cleaner
3. and gardener.
4. [employ someone as something] : Jean was employed by the company as a computer programmer.
5. [employ someone to do something] : We should employ someone to manage production.
6. [be employed in something] : A third of the population is employed in the coal mining industry.
7. Two methods can be employed.