employ
Example Sentences
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Big picture: Manufacturers still play a big role in the economy, employing some 13 million people directly and many others indirectly.
From MarketWatch
Newell Brands employed approximately 23,700 people worldwide as of the end of last year, according to its most recent annual filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
In mostly English but sometimes Spanish and Spanglish, Guzman-Lopez takes readers from the U.S.-Mexico border to L.A., employing the type of lyrical bank shots only a poet can get away with.
From Los Angeles Times
Data centers don’t employ many workers once they are actually built.
The U.S. employs an estimated 10,000 commercial sailors, a number that has fallen sharply over recent decades as America outsourced much of its shipping demands to China and other countries.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
