employ

employ - verb

  • To make use of (someone or something inactive)
  • To use (something, such as time) advantageously
  • To devote to or direct toward a particular activity or person
Source: Merriam-Webster Dictionary API
"employ a pen for sketching"

employ - thesaurus

Antonyms: can, fire

SpellingJoy score for employ

SpellingJoy Gematria

๐Ÿ‘‘ Master
151

Letter Values

E
8
M
14
P
17
L
13
O
15
Y
28

Etymology

Middle English emploien, emplien "to apply or devote (a thing to a purpose), apply (oneself) to a task, make use of, expend," borrowed from Anglo-French empleier, emploier, emplier "to entangle, fabricate, put to use, devote (oneself) to" (continental Middle French also "to make use of, apply, occupy [time], expend [money], use the services of [a person]"), going back to Latin implicฤre "to fold about itself, entwine, entangle, involve, embroil"