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Definition: EMPLOYING

Part of Speech Definition
Verb 1. To use, exert, utilize, exploit or utilise. [Eve - graph theoretic]
2. To bestow. [Eve - graph theoretic]
3. To consume or spend. [Eve - graph theoretic]
4. To hire, engage, lease or let. [Eve - graph theoretic]
5. To wear, recruit, occupy, take or hold. [Eve - graph theoretic]
6. To anticipate.[Eve - graph theoretic]
7. Present participle conjugation of the verb employ.[Eve - graph theoretic]
Verb Base
(employ)		 1. Put into service; make work or employ for a particular purpose or for its inherent or natural purpose.[Wordnet].
2. Engage or hire for work; "How many people has she employed?".[Wordnet].
3. To inclose; to infold.[Websters].
4. To use; to have in service; to cause to be engaged in doing something; -- often followed by in, about, on, or upon, and sometimes by to; as: (a) To make use of, as an instrument, a means, a material, etc., for a specific purpose; to apply; as, to employ the pen in writing, bricks in building, words and phrases in speaking; to employ the mind; to employ one's energies.[Websters].
5. To occupy; as, to employ time in study.[Websters].
6. To have or keep at work; to give employment or occupation to; to intrust with some duty or behest; as, to employ a hundred workmen; to employ an envoy.[Websters].
7. Base verb from the following inflections: employing, employed, employs, employer, employers, employingly and employedly.[Eve - graph theoretic]
Adjective 1. Being redeeming. [Eve - graph theoretic]
2. Being alienating. [Eve - graph theoretic]
3. Being living. [Eve - graph theoretic]
4. Being fetching. [Eve - graph theoretic]
5. Being labouring. [Eve - graph theoretic]
6. Being stimulating or rousing. [Eve - graph theoretic]
7. Being energizing, encouraging or energising. [Eve - graph theoretic]
8. Being enticing or tempting.[Eve - graph theoretic]

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Date "Employing" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1514. (references)

Specialty Definition: EMPLOYING

Domain Definition
Noah Webster [Verb] Occupying; using; keeping busy.. Source: Webster's 1828 American Dictionary.
Wiktionary [Verb] Present participle of employ. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Specialty Expressions: EMPLOYING

Expressions Domain Definition
Employing office Occupations The agency office (or retirement system office) that has responsibility for life insurance actions. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Topics by Level of Interest: EMPLOYING

Topics sorted by level of Interest Level (1=low, 600=high)     Topics sorted Alphabetically Level (1=low, 600=high)
List of fiction employing parallel universes 37     List of fiction employing parallel universes 37

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Synonyms: employing
Position Synonyms (sorted by strength)

Verb

 applying, using, consuming, engaging, exercising, exploiting, hiring, wielding, prescribe, busying, exerting, occupying, plying, retaining, servicing, utilizing, absorbing, adapt, administer, attach, chartering, committing, enforcing, habituating, locking, plighting, prosecuting, pursuing, put, set, utilising.
Consider also: devoting, availing, appointing, enjoying, enlisting, expending, harnessing, practicing, renting, berthing, cannibalising, cannibalizing, dedicating, resorting, allowing, manipulating, empowering, procuring, appoint, arrange, assign, determine, establish, furnish, oblige, provide, restrain, lay, fix, add, adhere, append, regulate, enjoin, define, secure, adjust, congeal.

Adjective

 useable, engrossing.
Consider also: jobbing.

Noun

 enslavement, employment, meshing.
Consider also: operating, habit, application, business, work, bondage, captivity, occupation, trade, use, career, duty, engagement, profession, service, slavery, exploitation, avocation, berth, job, labor.

Other

 affiancing, betrothing, exploited, exploit, exploiter, exploits, USAN, usefully.

Expression

 setting to work, to apply, to employ, to make use of, to use, to set.
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Computed Synonyms: employing

 Rank

 Intensity 

 Word

 Synonyms

 Synonyms of synonym

 1   79.4096   employing     applying     securing, connecting, attaching, affixing, fixing   
 2   62.3093   employing     inviting     invite, recruiting, retaining, call upon, initiating   
 3   61.3093   employing     securing     fastening, attaching, fixing, acquiring, seizing   
 4   60.3094   employing     unpicking     pulling, removing, disconnecting, depriving, loosening   
 5   58.3093   employing     committing     rendering, acting, delivering, achieving, creating   
 6   57.3093   employing     retaining     sustaining, securing, accepting, protecting, checking   
 7   56.3093   employing     loosening     unpicking, opening, disconnecting, unlocking, relieving   
 8   55.3194   employing     enlisting     inserting, securing, connecting, committing, inviting   
 9   55.3093   employing     inserting     initiating, securing, popping, starting, arranging   
 10   53.3093   employing     accepting     securing, collecting, recruiting, initiating, retaining   
 11   52.3092   employing     uncoupling     unpicking, unleashing, opening, liberating, untying   
 12   52.3092   employing     connecting     securing, connect, connected, join, joining   
 13   52.3090   employing     disconnecting     demolishing, unpicking, loosening, disintegrating, distinguishing   
 14   50.3092   employing     initiating     activating, inserting, arranging, introducing, accepting   
 15   49.3093   employing     mobilizing     inserting, initiating, appointing, engaging, connecting   
--------------------     1094 synonyms ranked from 16 to 1109 abridged     --------------------

Source: calculated by Eve using graph theory. "Intensity" is a score indicating the number of overlapping cliques where the word pair is found (an integer before the decimal); the first digit after the decimal is the number of overlapping terminal characters up to 9; the second characters is number of leading common characters up to 9; the last two digits measure the Levenshtein distance subtracted from 100. Top

Computed Synonyms via Expressions: employing

 Rank

 Intensity 

 Word

 Synonyms

 Synonyms of synonym

 1   20.0091   employing     to use     use, make use of, utilize   
 2   19.0088   employing     make use of     use, utilize, employ   
 3   17.0086   employing     turn to account     make use of, use, employ   
 4   7.0091   employing     take on     take, accept, employ   
 5   6.0090   employing     go through     examine, excavate, dig up   
 6   6.0090   employing     to wear     wear, worn, have on   
 7   3.0693   employing     to employ     employ, to use, use   
 8   3.0092   employing     set in     begin, start, commence   
 9   3.0091   employing     to hire     hire, hiring, employ   
 10   2.3090   employing     bring up     rear, raise, nurture   
 11   2.0191   employing     end up at     pass, reach, find   
 12   2.0184   employing     without engagement     engagement, without our liability, involvement   
 13   2.0181   employing     liabilities engagement     without engagement, engagement, involvement   
 14   2.0091   employing     hook on     hang, hitch on, to hang   
 15   2.0091   employing     crash into     collide with, to collide with, to collide   
--------------------     30 synonyms ranked from 16 to 45 abridged     --------------------

Source: calculated by Eve using graph theory. "Intensity" is a score indicating the number of overlapping cliques where the word pair is found (an integer before the decimal); the first digit after the decimal is the number of overlapping terminal characters up to 9; the second characters is number of leading common characters up to 9; the last two digits measure the Levenshtein distance subtracted from 100. Top

Computed Expressions: employing

 Rank

 Intensity 

 Expression

 Synonyms

 Synonyms of synonym

 1   1.9498   over employing     over-employing     overexerting   
 2   1.9298   re employing     re-employing         
 3   1.3493   over employing     overexerting     tiring, overtiring   
Source: calculated by Eve using graph theory. "Intensity" is a score indicating the number of overlapping cliques where the word pair is found (an integer before the decimal); the first digit after the decimal is the number of overlapping terminal characters up to 9; the second characters is number of leading common characters up to 9; the last two digits measure the Levenshtein distance subtracted from 100. Top
Antonyms: employing
Position Antonyms (sorted by strength)

Verb

 firing.
Consider also: dismissing, ignoring, misusing.

Noun

 sacking.
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Translations: EMPLOYING

Language Translations (or nearest inflections or synonyms, in parentheses)
Al Arabiya اِسْتَخْدَمَ (use, appoint, appointed, appointing, appoints), أَكْرَى (employ, employed, employing, employs, lease), اِشْتِغال (absorption, busyness, career, careered, careering), اِنْشِغال (absorption, busyness, employ, employed, employing), دَفَرَ (employ, employed, employing, employs, impel), عَمَل (action, function, functions, act, deed), سَيَّرَ (impel, propel, run, running, walk), وَظِيفَة (job, function, assignment, billet, employment), شَغَّلَ (operate, run, actuate, actuated, actuates), دَوَّرَ (employ, employed, employing, employs, handle). Additional references: Al Arabiya, Saudi Arabia, Algeria, employing. (volunteer & more translations)
Al Fus-Ha اِسْتَخْدَمَ (use, appoint, appointed, appointing, appoints), أَكْرَى (employ, employed, employing, employs, lease), اِشْتِغال (absorption, busyness, career, careered, careering), اِنْشِغال (absorption, busyness, employ, employed, employing), دَفَرَ (employ, employed, employing, employs, impel), عَمَل (action, function, functions, act, deed), سَيَّرَ (impel, propel, run, running, walk), وَظِيفَة (job, function, assignment, billet, employment), شَغَّلَ (operate, run, actuate, actuated, actuates), دَوَّرَ (employ, employed, employing, employs, handle). Additional references: Al Fus-Ha, Saudi Arabia, Algeria, employing. (volunteer & more translations)
Arabic اِسْتَخْدَمَ (use, appoint, appointed, appointing, appoints), أَكْرَى (employ, employed, employing, employs, lease), اِشْتِغال (absorption, busyness, career, careered, careering), اِنْشِغال (absorption, busyness, employ, employed, employing), دَفَرَ (employ, employed, employing, employs, impel), عَمَل (action, function, functions, act, deed), سَيَّرَ (impel, propel, run, running, walk), وَظِيفَة (job, function, assignment, billet, employment), شَغَّلَ (operate, run, actuate, actuated, actuates), دَوَّرَ (employ, employed, employing, employs, handle). Additional references: Arabic, Saudi Arabia, Algeria, employing. (volunteer & more translations)
Bahasa Indonesia penggunaan (exertion, use, application, employing, tenure). Additional references: Bahasa Indonesia, Indonesia, Java, employing. (volunteer & more translations)
Bohemian zaměstnávající (employing, absorbing, occupying), koristeæi (drawing on, employing, using). Additional references: Bohemian, Czech Republic, employing. (volunteer & more translations)
Brazilian Portuguese empregar (to use, employ, use, make use of, hire), empregando (using, employing, hiring). Additional references: Brazilian Portuguese, Portugal, Angola, employing. (volunteer & more translations)
Central Danish offentlige arbejdsgiver (employing public authority). Additional references: Central Danish, Denmark, Germany, employing. (volunteer & more translations)
Cestina zaměstnávající (employing, absorbing, occupying), koristeæi (drawing on, employing, using). Additional references: Cestina, Czech Republic, employing. (volunteer & more translations)
Chinese Simplified 使用 (to apply, to employ, to make use of, to use, use). Additional references: Chinese Simplified, China, Brunei, employing. (volunteer & more translations)
Corse usà (employ, to use, use, wear out, make use of), oprà (employ, to use, use, make use of, bestow), impiegà (commitment, occupy, to occupy, employ, to use), ghjuvassi di (employ, to use, use, to utilize, utilize), apprudà (employ, to use, use, accost, make use of), aduprà (employ, to use, use, to utilize, utilize), impiégà (bestow, employ, employing, exert, exploit), sèrvesi di (employ, to use, use, make use of, bestow). Additional references: Corse, France, Italy, employing. (volunteer & more translations)
Corsi usà (employ, to use, use, wear out, make use of), oprà (employ, to use, use, make use of, bestow), impiegà (commitment, occupy, to occupy, employ, to use), ghjuvassi di (employ, to use, use, to utilize, utilize), apprudà (employ, to use, use, accost, make use of), aduprà (employ, to use, use, to utilize, utilize), impiégà (bestow, employ, employing, exert, exploit), sèrvesi di (employ, to use, use, make use of, bestow). Additional references: Corsi, France, Italy, employing. (volunteer & more translations)
Corsican usà (employ, to use, use, wear out, make use of), oprà (employ, to use, use, make use of, bestow), impiegà (commitment, occupy, to occupy, employ, to use), ghjuvassi di (employ, to use, use, to utilize, utilize), apprudà (employ, to use, use, accost, make use of), aduprà (employ, to use, use, to utilize, utilize), impiégà (bestow, employ, employing, exert, exploit), sèrvesi di (employ, to use, use, make use of, bestow). Additional references: Corsican, France, Italy, employing. (volunteer & more translations)
Corso usà (employ, to use, use, wear out, make use of), oprà (employ, to use, use, make use of, bestow), impiegà (commitment, occupy, to occupy, employ, to use), ghjuvassi di (employ, to use, use, to utilize, utilize), apprudà (employ, to use, use, accost, make use of), aduprà (employ, to use, use, to utilize, utilize), impiégà (bestow, employ, employing, exert, exploit), sèrvesi di (employ, to use, use, make use of, bestow). Additional references: Corso, France, Italy, employing. (volunteer & more translations)
Corsu usà (employ, to use, use, wear out, make use of), oprà (employ, to use, use, make use of, bestow), impiegà (commitment, occupy, to occupy, employ, to use), ghjuvassi di (employ, to use, use, to utilize, utilize), apprudà (employ, to use, use, accost, make use of), aduprà (employ, to use, use, to utilize, utilize), impiégà (bestow, employ, employing, exert, exploit), sèrvesi di (employ, to use, use, make use of, bestow). Additional references: Corsu, France, Italy, employing. (volunteer & more translations)
Czech zaměstnávající (employing, absorbing, occupying), koristeæi (drawing on, employing, using). Additional references: Czech, Czech Republic, employing. (volunteer & more translations)
Danish offentlige arbejdsgiver (employing public authority). Additional references: Danish, Denmark, Germany, employing. (volunteer & more translations)
Dansk offentlige arbejdsgiver (employing public authority). Additional references: Dansk, Denmark, Germany, employing. (volunteer & more translations)
Deutsch beschäftigend (employing, busying, occupying, preoccupying), Ingebrauchnahme (employing, putting into operation), Anstellen (employ, turn on, employing, start, switch on), anstellend (employing, doing, engaging), Anheuern (charter, employ, employing, register, signing on), einstellen (set, adjust, to adjust, appoint, discontinue), wiedereinsetzend (reinstating, re employing, reinstalling). Additional references: Deutsch, Germany, Austria, employing. (volunteer & more translations)
Dutch inhuren (employ, employing, employment), in gebruik nemen (employing, set going, set in operation, set to work), in dienst nemen (employ, hire, engage, engagement, enroll), huren (hire, employ, rent, charter, Renting), ambtelijke werkgever (employing public authority). Additional references: Dutch, Netherlands, Aruba, employing. (volunteer & more translations)
Finnish ristipolarisaatiolla erotettu keila (beam employing cross-polarization isolation). Additional references: Finnish, Finland, Russia (Europe), employing. (volunteer & more translations)
Français employant (using, employing), utilisant (utilizing, using, employing), action de embaucher (employing), action de engager (employing), mise en service (commissioning, putting into service, activation, bringing into service, carrier activation), employer (employ, use, to use, make use of, exert), autorité publique agissant en qualité d'employeur (employing public authority), organisation affiliée qui emploie le participant (employing member organization), société employeur (employing company). Additional references: Français, France, Algeria, employing. (volunteer & more translations)
French employant (using, employing), utilisant (utilizing, using, employing), action de embaucher (employing), action de engager (employing), mise en service (commissioning, putting into service, activation, bringing into service, carrier activation), employer (employ, use, to use, make use of, exert), autorité publique agissant en qualité d'employeur (employing public authority), organisation affiliée qui emploie le participant (employing member organization), société employeur (employing company). Additional references: French, France, Algeria, employing. (volunteer & more translations)
German beschäftigend (employing, busying, occupying, preoccupying), Ingebrauchnahme (employing, putting into operation), Anstellen (employ, turn on, employing, start, switch on), anstellend (employing, doing, engaging), Anheuern (charter, employ, employing, register, signing on), einstellen (set, adjust, to adjust, appoint, discontinue), wiedereinsetzend (reinstating, re employing, reinstalling). Additional references: German, Germany, Austria, employing. (volunteer & more translations)
Greek δέσμη με απομόνωση σταυροπόλωσης (beam employing cross-polarization isolation). Additional references: Greek, Greece, Albania, employing. (volunteer & more translations)
Greek (transliteration) dhesmi me apomonosi stairopolosis (beam employing cross-polarization isolation). Additional references: Greek, Greece, Albania, employing. (volunteer & more translations)
Hebrew השתמשות (employing, making use, use). Additional references: Hebrew, Israel, employing. (volunteer & more translations)
High Arabic اِسْتَخْدَمَ (use, appoint, appointed, appointing, appoints), أَكْرَى (employ, employed, employing, employs, lease), اِشْتِغال (absorption, busyness, career, careered, careering), اِنْشِغال (absorption, busyness, employ, employed, employing), دَفَرَ (employ, employed, employing, employs, impel), عَمَل (action, function, functions, act, deed), سَيَّرَ (impel, propel, run, running, walk), وَظِيفَة (job, function, assignment, billet, employment), شَغَّلَ (operate, run, actuate, actuated, actuates), دَوَّرَ (employ, employed, employing, employs, handle). Additional references: High Arabic, Saudi Arabia, Algeria, employing. (volunteer & more translations)
High German beschäftigend (employing, busying, occupying, preoccupying), Ingebrauchnahme (employing, putting into operation), Anstellen (employ, turn on, employing, start, switch on), anstellend (employing, doing, engaging), Anheuern (charter, employ, employing, register, signing on), einstellen (set, adjust, to adjust, appoint, discontinue), wiedereinsetzend (reinstating, re employing, reinstalling). Additional references: High German, Germany, Austria, employing. (volunteer & more translations)
Hochdeutsch beschäftigend (employing, busying, occupying, preoccupying), Ingebrauchnahme (employing, putting into operation), Anstellen (employ, turn on, employing, start, switch on), anstellend (employing, doing, engaging), Anheuern (charter, employ, employing, register, signing on), einstellen (set, adjust, to adjust, appoint, discontinue), wiedereinsetzend (reinstating, re employing, reinstalling). Additional references: Hochdeutsch, Germany, Austria, employing. (volunteer & more translations)
Indonesian penggunaan (exertion, use, application, employing, tenure). Additional references: Indonesian, Indonesia, Java, employing. (volunteer & more translations)
Ivrit השתמשות (employing, making use, use). Additional references: Ivrit, Israel, employing. (volunteer & more translations)
Japanese 使役 (enslavement, using, employing, setting to work, employment), 傭聘 (employment, employing), ようへい (employing, employment, leaf stalk, mercenary, stipe), しえき (employing, enslavement, private interest, setting to work, using), 用い (employing, exerting, Exertment), 再び用い (re employing, re-employing), 過度に用い (over employing, over-employing, overexerting). Additional references: Japanese, Japan, Taiwan, employing. (volunteer & more translations)
Norwegian Å ansetting (employing). Additional references: Norwegian, Norway, employing. (volunteer & more translations)
Portuguese empregar (use, employ, to use, make use of, hire), empregando (using, employing, hiring). Additional references: Portuguese, Portugal, Angola, employing. (volunteer & more translations)
Ruotsi användning (application, use, consumption, disposal, employing), anställande (employing). Additional references: Ruotsi, Sweden, Finland, employing. (volunteer & more translations)
Scots Gaelic iomairt (conflict, contest, employing, exercise, playing). Additional references: Scots Gaelic, United Kingdom, employing. (volunteer & more translations)
Sjaelland offentlige arbejdsgiver (employing public authority). Additional references: Sjaelland, Denmark, Germany, employing. (volunteer & more translations)
Spanish emplear (employ, apply, practice, to apply, exercise), la falta de especificidad de los métodos químicos que utilizan la ditizona favorece la adopción de métodos físicos tales como la polarografía y la espectrofotometría de absorción atómica (the lack of specificity in chemical methods employing dithizone encouraged the adoption of physical methods), sistema autónomo de energía en zonas rurales con instrumentos fotovoltaicos (stand-alone rural power system employing photovoltaics), organización afiliada empleadora (employing member organization), empleomanía (employing habit), haz en que se emplee discriminación por polarización cruzada (beam employing cross-polarization isolation), haz en que se emplea discriminación por polarización cruzada (beam employing cross-polarization isolation). Additional references: Spanish, Spain, Mexico, employing. (volunteer & more translations)
Suomea ristipolarisaatiolla erotettu keila (beam employing cross-polarization isolation). Additional references: Suomea, Finland, Russia (Europe), employing. (volunteer & more translations)
Suomi ristipolarisaatiolla erotettu keila (beam employing cross-polarization isolation). Additional references: Suomi, Finland, Russia (Europe), employing. (volunteer & more translations)
Svenska användning (application, use, consumption, disposal, employing), anställande (employing). Additional references: Svenska, Sweden, Finland, employing. (volunteer & more translations)
Swedish användning (application, use, consumption, disposal, employing), anställande (employing). Additional references: Swedish, Sweden, Finland, employing. (volunteer & more translations)
Turkish istimal (employing, using), istihdam (employment, deploy, employing, taking into service), işverensınıfı (employing class), işveren sınıfı (employing class). Additional references: Turkish, Turkey, Bulgaria, employing. (volunteer & more translations)
Vivaro-Alpine Occitan empleiar (employ, to use, use, make use of, bestow). Additional references: Vivaro-Alpine Occitan, employing. (volunteer & more translations)
Yipunu musatsi (employ, to use, use, make use of, bestow). Additional references: Yipunu, Gabon, employing. (volunteer & more translations)
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Constructed Language Translations: EMPLOYING

Language Translations for “employing” or closest synonym(s); back translations in parentheses.
Pig Latin employingway (employing). Additional references: Pig Latin, employing. (volunteer)
Terran B ampiega (employing). Additional references: Terran B, employing. (volunteer)
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Ancestral and Extinct Language Translations: EMPLOYING

Language Period Translations (or nearest inflections or synonyms, in parentheses)
Latin 500 BCE - 1700 consumptionem (consumption, employing, process of consuming or wearing away, use, wasting), consumptione (consumption, employing, process of consuming or wearing away, use, wasting), consumptio (consumption, employing, process of consuming or wearing away, use, wasting). Additional references: Latin, employing. (volunteer)
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