employed
having your services engaged for; or having a job especially one that pays wages or a salary
How often you will meet it
Rank 2,275 of 71,295 words measured. It occurs 7,672 times across 155,139 chapters — 0.004% of every word in the library.
What it means
adjective
- having your services engaged for; or having a job especially one that pays wages or a salary most of our graduates are employed
- put to use also: utilized, utilised
employed in real books
Each sentence below was written by a published author and is taken from a different book in our library. Open one to read the passage it came from, with narration.
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He had his fingers on the pulse of business, and employed agents everywhere to serve his interests.
The Bad Man: A Novel · Charles Hanson Towne · Chapter 1
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The factory in the Faubourg St. Antoine, where he was employed, had been compelled to close its doors.
Other People's Money · Emile Gaboriau · Chapter 1
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Well, then, France employed with you boys on the Rhine, I shall move down south, and quietly occupy Constantinople.
Punch — Volume 101, November 7, 1891 · Various · Chapter 1
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The Scotchman was not employed by the farmers and shepherds around Wythburn, and he had neither land nor sheep of his own.
The Shadow of a Crime: A Cumbrian Romance · Hall, Sir Caine · Chapter 1
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When employed upon ill, remorse gave way to the zest of scheming; when the ill was done, remorse came with the repose.
Lucretia — Volume 06 · Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron Lytton · Chapter 1