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employed in English:

1. employ employ


They employ temporary workers.
If he is proficient in English, I'll employ him.
They employ foreigners because Japanese workers are in short supply.
His age didn't enter into our decision not to employ him.
It has become common practise to employ foreigners working abroad from Asian countries as maids.
Japanese education is sometimes said to employ the drill and kill method.
Do you have a John Harrison in your employ?
However, like America, Japan is predominantly a middle-class, middle-income country, and so wives do not employ maids, but attend to everything themselves.
To employ means to use somebody's labour or services in exchange for money.
He's employed in a bank
Over 16.5 million people are employed in the food industry.
In Poland you can't be employed, if you are under 18.
We can also change the type of physical isolation we employ for them.
Don't employ any complicated vocabulary while talking to him.
The temporary workers that we managed to employ left work right away.

English word "employed"(employ) occurs in sets:

Word Formation (Year 3)

2. unemployed unemployed


I'm unemployed.
Hundreds of unemployed men sleep there day and night.
This increase in the number of unemployed people is a result of the bad economy.
The unemployed always wind up at the bottom of the heap.
The financial crisis has left many unemployed.
I hear that the number of the unemployed has been increasing recently.
Being unemployed gave me the chance to stand back and think about my life.
Are there many unemployed people in Poland?
Only unemployed people date on Wednesdays.
The police assembled several unemployed men.
Because he was unemployed, their wedlock failed.
Because of the protracted depression, many workers are unemployed.
I am unemployed and haven’t got a job.
I've been unemployed for 5 months now.
The number of unemployed college graduates amounts to more than 4000.

English word "employed"(unemployed) occurs in sets:

opposite & negatives eng - eng

3. working for sb