Thesaurus / employ
EXAMPLE SENTENCES FROM THE WEB
You cannot ask what happened to your gift, but nothing stops you from penning a chatty letter updating him on your life and thanking him for his many kindnesses while in his employ.
MISS MANNERS: HOW TO ASK INDIRECTLY ABOUT A MISSING GIFTJUDITH MARTIN, NICHOLAS MARTIN, JACOBINA MARTINJANUARY 7, 2021WASHINGTON POST
All this will, doubtless, throw a number of deserving persons out of employ.
In fact, Frank was the only European in Meerut who would employ the man, whose extraordinary appearance went against him.
THE RED YEARLOUIS TRACY
To talk of an excess of labor, or an inability to employ it, in such a country as Ireland, is to insult the general understanding.
GLANCES AT EUROPEHORACE GREELEY
The bank did not employ him to steal, but to perform the ordinary banking duties.
PUTNAM'S HANDY LAW BOOK FOR THE LAYMANALBERT SIDNEY BOLLES
And if we did that, they would employ their usual treachery and evil methods, as they generally do.
It also empowered the Board to employ persons for carrying the Act into effect.
I asked why he should employ Irishmen, in preference to doing the work with his own hands.
The people in his employ had, in fact, deserved much more praise than he had vouchsafed to them.
SKIPPER WORSEALEXANDER LANGE KIELLAND
It was not the habit of Consul Garman to trouble himself much about the persons in his employ.
SKIPPER WORSEALEXANDER LANGE KIELLAND
WORDS RELATED TO EMPLOY
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.