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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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Other Word Forms

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Word 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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"Where are the future hairdressers going to come from if good, employed salons go out of business?"

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To accompany her flamboyant sermons, she employed a brass band, an orchestra and a 100-person choir.

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Miller’s attorney, Joel Levine, told The Times that the FBI threw the book at his client as an overreaction to its mistake in keeping him employed.

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“The State Bar has admitted they employed a company to have a non-lawyer use AI to draft questions that were given on the actual bar exam,” she said.

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Most people who live here have nothing to do with the film industry — it’s a huge city, and I think it’s less than 5% of the workforce here that’s employed in entertainment.

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