Employed

Definition: Employed

Employed

Adjective

1. Having your services engaged for; or having a job especially one that pays wages or a salary; "most of our graduates are employed".

2. Put to use.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "employed" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1258. (references)

Census

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

Synonym: Employed

Business

Be about, be doing, be engaged in, be employed in, be occupied with, be at work on; have one's hands in, have in hand; have on one's hands, have on one's shoulders; bear the burden; have one's hands full; (activity).

Adjective: businesslike; workaday; professional; official, functional; busy; (actively employed); on hand, in hand, in one's hands; afoot; on foot, on the anvil; going on; acting.

Crosswords: Employed

Are you employed sir (The Big Lebowski; writing credit: Ethan Coen; Joel Coen)

No, I'm not, I'm employed. (Tootsie; writing credit: Larry Gelbart and Murray Schisgal.)

You know, it strikes me that we would be better employed ringing Milady's pretty neck than shooting these poor devils of protestants (The Four Musketeers; writing credit: Alexandre Dumas père; George MacDonald Fraser)

I mean, between you and Leo, and Prue, the new Hot Wicca Woman, and me, soon to be employed, things are looking up. (Charmed; writing credit: Colman deKay)

To all appearances, I'm the one woman who is employed here in the castle as your servant (Rupan sansei: Kariosutoro no shiro; writing credit: Hayao Miyazaki; Monkey Punch)

Remember the arguments, we employed (Above The Clouds; performing artist: Amber)

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

References

• The World Market for Mounted Lenses, Prisms, Mirrors and Other Optically Worked Elements Employed As Parts of Fittings for Instruments or Apparatus: A 2004 Global Trade Perspective (reference)

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Books

• Gold trails of Otago; being a traveller's guide to the gold fields of Otago, including an abbreviated account of the methods employed in the goldfields, and providing valuable instruction for the intending prospector in the subtle art of winning the preci (reference)

• British companies in South Africa : a summary of the evidence and findings arising from a House of Commons enquiry into the wages and conditions of African workers employed by British firms in South Africa (reference)

• Dictionary of Transports and Combatant Vessels, Steam and Sail, Employed by the Union Army, 1861 - 1868 (reference)

• Education and Mobility Among Harijans (A Study Based Students, Government Employees and Traditionally Employed chaMars of Varanasi) (reference)

• Ships employed in the South Seas trade : 1775-1859 (part I) : Admiralty protections from impressment, 1777-1811 (part II) : Aspects of the South Sea trade (part III) (reference)

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Periodicals

• Employed Wage & Salary Earners Australia (reference)

• Self Employed America (reference)

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

53 year old female, employed 10 years in the spinning department of a goat-hair processing mill. Cutaneous anthrax lesion on right cheek; lesion as seen on 11th day. Credit: CDC.

A firehose is employed by the Captain of the ROBERT LEE to spread oyster spat reared by the Oyster Recovery Partnership. Credit: America's Coastlines.

Deck of modern whaler, showing try-works, scraphopper, and utensils employed in trying-out oil. In: "Aquatic Products in Arts and Industries" by Charles H. Stevenson. Report of the Commissioner for the Year Ending June 30, 1902. P. 196, Plate 13. Credit: Fisheries.

A slide describing the purpose of the eelgrass restoration and its partners. In June 1996 NOAA scientists transplanted 7000 eelgrass plants from Charlestown Pond to ten locations in Narragansett Bay. The project team returned the following September and found mixed results. In June 1997, the team expanded two of the successful sites and employed a new technique by transplanting turf. Credit: NOAA Restoration Center.

Sectional plan of well-smack employed in the fresh halibut fishery As used on George's Bank 1836 to 1845 Drawing by Capt. J.W. Collins. Credit: National Marine Fisheries Historical Image Collection.

Figure 61. Electrosounder, used by the Italian Navy in 1954, employed a small explosive device which exploded on impact with the bottom and the sound subsequently was heard at a hydrophone on a ship. The use of explosives for depth finding was first suggested by a French engineer, Urbain Dortet de Tessan about 1850. Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now.

Figure 54. Richter mounting with messenger and pump brake for slowing reversing action. With the earlier models used by Doflein, the mounting would flop over too quickly and jar the mercury column sufficiently to cause its separation. To slow down the reversing motion, a piston pump mechanism was installed on the mounting. This mounting was employed by Doflein off the coast of Japan in 1904. Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now.

Caption: Talent Employed by the National Phonograph Company for Making Edison Records; West Orange, NJ; 1900-1903; {29.420/7} (jpg).

Students employed as farm laborers. Credit: National Library of Medicine.

At anchor prior to World War I, while employed as a pleasure craft. Acquired by the Navy on 8 May 1917 and commissioned as USS Alice (SP-367) on 29 September 1917, she served as a patrol craft during World War I. USS Alice was stricken from the Navy list on 7 July 1919 and sold on 5 August 1919. Credit: NAVY.

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

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

The legislative power is that, which has a right to direct how the force of the common-wealth shall be employed for preserving the community and the members of it. (Second Treatise of Government)

Clause 1: The Congress shall have Power To lay and collect Taxes, Duties, Imposts and Excises, to pay the Debts and provide for the common Defence and general Welfare of the United States; but all Duties, Imposts and Excises shall be uniform throughout the United States; Clause 2: To borrow Money on the credit of the United States; Clause 3: To regulate Commerce with foreign Nations, and among the several States, and with the Indian Tribes; Clause 4: To establish an uniform Rule of Naturalization, and uniform Laws on the subject of Bankruptcies throughout the United States; Clause 5: To coin Money, regulate the Value thereof, and of foreign Coin, and fix the Standard of Weights and Measures; Clause 6: To provide for the Punishment of counterfeiting the Securities and current Coin of the United States; Clause 7: To establish Post Offices and post Roads; Clause 8: To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries; Clause 9: To constitute Tribunals inferior to the supreme Court; Clause 10: To define and punish Piracies and Felonies committed on the high Seas, and Offences against the Law of Nations; Clause 11: To declare War, grant Letters of Marque and Reprisal, and make Rules concerning Captures on Land and Water; Clause 12: To raise and support Armies, but no Appropriation of Money to that Use shall be for a longer Term than two Years; Clause 13: To provide and maintain a Navy; Clause 14: To make Rules for the Government and Regulation of the land and naval Forces; Clause 15: To provide for calling forth the Militia to execute the Laws of the Union, suppress Insurrections and repel Invasions; Clause 16: To provide for organizing, arming, and disciplining, the Militia, and for governing such Part of them as may be employed in the Service of the United States, reserving to the States respectively, the Appointment of the Officers, and the Authority of training the Militia according to the discipline prescribed by Congress; Clause 17: To exercise exclusive Legislation in all Cases whatsoever, over such District (not exceeding ten Miles square) as may, byCession of particular States, and the Acceptance of Congress, become the Seat of the Government of the United States, and to exercise like Authority over all Places purchased by the Consent of the Legislature of the State in which the Same shall be, for the Erection of Forts, Magazines, Arsenals, dock-Yards, and other needful Buildings;--And Clause 18: To make all Laws which shall be necessary and proper for carrying into Execution the foregoing Powers, and all other Powers vested by this Constitution in the Government of the United States, or in any Department or Officer thereof. (reference)

Second.­The right of association for all lawful purposes by the employed as well as by the employers. (reference)

For only when our arms are sufficient beyond doubt can we be certain beyond doubt that they will never be employed. (reference)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Much better employed talking to the young ladies

In came all the young men and women employed in the business

Much of the time, which she might readily have applied to the better efforts of her art, she employed in making coarse garments for the poor

3 Rue du Sabot, where she was employed as a folder and bookstitcher

Those plants of whose greenness withered we make herb tea for the sick serve but a humble use, and are most employed by quacks

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Health

It should not be employed as routine care for all patients. (references)

Some are so mildly affected that they live independently and are gainfully employed. (references)

Estimates of the prevalence of impotence depend on the definition employed for this condition. (references)

Business

Argentine farms employed roughly 1.4 million persons. (references)

Pizza City is owned by an American formerly employed by Domino’s Pizza. (references)

Most women employed in industry work in lower skilled and lower paid jobs. (references)

Children

El Salvador

Therefore, there are no reliable data on the number of persons with disabilities who are employed. (references)

Japan

Some prefectural governments provided subsidies to companies that employed persons who used wheelchairs. (references)

Sri Lanka

However, many thousands of children are believed to be employed in domestic service, although this situation is not regulated or documented. (references)

Civil Liberties

Mauritania

Some arrived more than 10 years ago and are employed fully. (references)

Turkey

Local and provincial imams, who are civil servants, are employed by the Diyanet. (references)

Poland

Catholic Church representatives are employed to teach religious classes in the schools. (references)

Economic History

Romania

It employed about 105,000 people. (references)

Armenia

Marshals are employed by the Ministry of Justice. (references)

Democratic Republic of Congo

In 1996, agriculture employed 66% of the work force. (references)

Human Rights

Singapore

The ISA is employed primarily against suspected security threats. (references)

Singapore

The CLA historically has been employed primarily against suspected organized crime and drug trafficking. (references)

Turkey

In some cases, multiple torture methods (e.g., hanging and electric shocks) are employed at the same time. (references)

Indigenous People

Botswana

Although the Baswara traditionally were hunter-gatherers, most Basarwa now are employed as agricultural workers on farms or at cattle posts belonging to other ethnic groups. (references)

Australia

Employed indigenous people were nearly 3 times more likely than nonindigenous people to be working as laborers and related workers and only half as likely to be employed as managers and administrators or in professional occupations, according to the latest available (1998) figures from the Bureau of Statistics. (references)

Minorities

United Kingdom

LMP employed 1,158 minority police officers by the end the year. (references)

Political Economy

Denmark

One-half of the work force is employed in the public sector. (references)

BELGIUM

This number includes employed, unemployed, and workers on early pension. (references)

Norway

During the year, 31.3 percent of workers were employed in the public sector. (references)

Trade

Trinidad

All types of payment are available and employed. (references)

Bahrain

However, the government does have mandatory formulas for the percentage of Bahraini employees to be employed by firms of varying sizes. (references)

Ukraine

Since such operations often involve offshore contracts, the bonded warehouse is a device frequently employed by non-resident companies that do not directly do business in Ukraine. (references)

Travel

Cote D'ivoire

A Security Bond is required for each alien so employed. (references)

Guatemala

The product pricing structures employed by Guatemalan business people will vary widely by industry and the level of local competition. (references)

Saudi Arabia

Saudi Arabia's seven million expatriates include 4.7 million laborers employed in various sectors, who annually transfer close to $16 billion in remittances. (references)

Women

Kuwait

Instead the law grants residency only if the husband is employed. (references)

Kuwait

Nonetheless an estimated 33 percent of women of working age are employed. (references)

Zambia

Married women who are employed often suffer from discriminatory conditions of service. (references)

Worker Rights

Djibouti

Children generally are not employed for hazardous work. (references)

Thailand

Underage workers also are employed as domestic servants. (references)

Tuvalu

Children rarely are employed outside the traditional economy. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expressions using "employed": be employed ♦ capital employed ♦ employed earner ♦ employed person ♦ employed persons by place of residence ♦ expert employed under a supplementation scheme ♦ gainfully employed ♦ persons employed ♦ production value per person employed ♦ return on capital employed ♦ self employed ♦ when actually employed. Additional references.

Beginning with "employed": employed-as-required, employed-husband.

Ending with "employed": non-employed, re-employed, under-employed.

Containing "employed": self-employed person.

Bulgarian 

нает (hired). (various references)

Chinese 

使用 (Employ, Employing, used, used-up, using). (various references)

Czech

zamìstnaný (business, busy). (various references)

Danish

loenmodtager (employed earner, employed person, employed persons by place of residence, employee, wage earner, wage worker), arbejdstager (employed earner, employed person, employed persons by place of residence, employee, wage earner, wage worker, worker). (various references)

Dutch

loontrekker (employed earner, employed person, employed persons by place of residence, employee, wage earner, wage worker), loontrekkende (employed earner, employed person, employed persons by place of residence, employee, wage earner, wage worker). (various references)

Finnish

etunolla (leading zeros, zeros preceding the first non-zero integer of a number.May be employed in the numeric fields of numerical control input blocks to indicate the assumed position of the decimal point within the field), yrittäjä (enterpreneur), työssä oleva väestö (engaged labour, numbers employed, persons engaged), työskennellä (be at work, be employed, be working, work), työllistymisajankohta (when actually employed), olla työssä (be at work, be employed by), olla jonkun palveluksessa (be employed by a person, be in a person's service), gravimetrinen menetelmä (gravimetric method, gravimetric methods, gravimetric methods employed at the end of thermal cycles, gravimetry), ansiotyössä (gainfully employed). (various references)

French

employai, employés (employees), employâmes, employèrent, salarié (employe, employee, salaried employee). (various references)

German

angestellt (on, on the staff), beschäftigte (busied, employee, employees), beschäftigt (busily, busy, employs, engaged, intent, intently, occupied, preoccupied). (various references)

Greek 

μισθωτός (employed earner, employed person, employed persons by place of residence, employee, wage earner, wage worker). (various references)

Hebrew 

מועסק (employee, engaged, occupied). (various references)

Hungarian

munkavállaló (employee). (various references)

Italian

occupato (busy, engaged, occupied, occupies, taken). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

非職 (holding a post but having no duties, not employed), 有職者 (employed person), 就業者 (employed person). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

しゅうぎょうしゃ (employed person), ひしょく (holding a post but having no duties, not employed), ゆうしょくしゃ (employed person). (various references)

Korean 

사역하는. (various references)

Manx

failt (ave, hired; welcome, salaried). (various references)

Pig Latin

employeday.(various references)

Portuguese

pessoal em serviço nos postos consulares (persons employed by consular posts, service personnel of consular offices), atestado para a inscrição dos familiares do trabalhador assalariado ou não assalariado e para a actualização dos inventários (certificate for the registration of members of the employed or self-employed person's family and the updating of lists, E109 form), formulário E109 (certificate for the registration of members of the employed or self-employed person's family and the updating of lists, E109 form), mão-de-obra não familiar eventual (non-family labour not regularly employed), mão-de-obra não familiar permanente (non-family labour regularly employed), número de trabalhadores (number currently employed), os carregadores frontais servem essencialmente para carregar o estrume (front loaders are often employed for handling manure), pessoal das representações consulares (persons employed by consular posts, service personnel of consular offices), adição de bicloreto de mercúrio utilizado como transportador (addition of mercury bichloride employed as a carrier), pessoal em serviço nas missões diplomáticas (persons employed by diplomatic missions, service personnel of diplomatic representative offices), zeros à esquerda (leading zeros, zeros preceding the first non-zero integer of a number.May be employed in the numeric fields of numerical control input blocks to indicate the assumed position of the decimal point within the field), pessoal empregado indirectamente em actividades aeroportuárias (staff indirectly employed on airport activities), pessoas empregadas (employed persons), processo por galeria:processo por escavação horizontal.Os processos de colocação das condutas por galerias e escavação horizontal só devem ser utilizados com o acordo do mestre de obras (tunnelling and thrust-bore methods of pipe-laying may only be employed with the permission of the awarding authority), relação estável e normal entre o número de activos e o número de pensionistas (normal and stable ratio between the number currently employed and the number receiving pensions), trabalhador assalariado (employed earner, employed person, employed persons by place of residence, employee, wage earner, wage worker), trabalhador em situação irregular (illegally employed worker), pessoal das representações diplomáticas (persons employed by diplomatic missions, service personnel of diplomatic representative offices). (various references)

Romanian

ocupat (busy, conquered, engaged, occupied, rapt, seized, taken), angajat (employee, engaged, foul, hireling, in place, super). (various references)

Russian 

применять;нанимать служащий занятый. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

zaposlen (hired, working). (various references)

Spanish

el sistema de anclaje de tipo unidireccional se utiliza en aquellos casos en los que las solicitaciones del medio exterior presentan una direccion claramente dominante (the "Unidirectional Attack" mooring pattern is employed where there is a strong prevailing environmental direction), en el tendido de tuberías los procedimientos de galería de avance y de perforación horizontal solamente podrán aplicarse con el permiso de la autoridad adjudicataria (tunnelling and thrust-bore methods of pipe-laying may only be employed with the permission of the awarding authority), efectivos de asalariados (number currently employed), cero no significativo (insignificant zero, leading zeros, unsignificant zero, zeros preceding the first non-zero integer of a number.May be employed in the numeric fields of numerical control input blocks to indicate the assumed position of the decimal point within the field), certificación para la inscripción de los miembros de la familia del trabajador asalariado o no asalariado y la elaboración de los inventarios (certificate for the registration of members of the employed or self-employed person's family and the updating of lists, E109 form), como el laminado en frío, el estirado se practica como procedimiento de conformación y como medio para conferir propiedades mecánicas determinadas a los hilos de acero (like cold rolling, wire drawing is employed both as a forming process and also as a means of imparting given mechanical properties to steel wires), cero a la izquierda (pipsqueak), mientras está trabajando (when actually employed), análisis gravimétrico al final de ciclos térmicos (gravimetric methods employed at the end of thermal cycles), mano de obra no familiar ocupada regularmente (non-family labour regularly employed), la laminación en frío se utiliza bien sea par obtener espesores estrictamente controlados y una superficie de buena apariencia, o bien como medio para cambiar las características mecánicas y magnéticas de la chapa (cold rolling is employed either as a shaping operation to obtain good thickness tolerances and a good surface, or as a means of modifying the mechanical or magnetic properties of sheet material), la voladura con nitroglicerina, utilizada en la estimulacion del pozo, implica la colocacion y detonacion de un explosivo en la zona adyacente a la capa productiva (employed in well stimulation, involves the placing and detonating of an explosive adjacent to the producing strata, the nitro-shooting process), las áreas restringidas no se emplearán de manera incompatible con las disposiciones convenidas sobre inspección (restricted areas will not be employed in a way inconsistent with the agreed provisions on inspection), método de imputación del capital empleado (method of allocating capital employed), adición de bicloruro de mercurio utilizado como portador (addition of mercury bichloride employed as a carrier), formulario E109 (certificate for the registration of members of the employed or self-employed person's family and the updating of lists, E109 form), personal que trabaja indirectamente en actividades aeroportuarias (staff indirectly employed on airport activities), trabajador por cuenta ajena (employed earner, employed person, employed persons by place of residence, employee, wage earner, wage worker), trabajador en situación irregular (illegally employed worker), trabajador asalariado (employed earner, employed person, employed persons by place of residence, employee, wage earner, wage worker), rendimiento de los activos (return on assets, return on capital employed, return on equity, ROCE), mano de obra no familiar ocupada no regularmente (non-family labour not regularly employed), personas empleadas (employed persons), trabajador por cuenta propia (self employed, self-employed earner, self-employed person), personal de servicio de las oficinas consulares (persons employed by consular posts, service personnel of consular offices), personal de servicio de las misiones diplomáticas (persons employed by diplomatic missions, service personnel of diplomatic representative offices), personal al servicio de las representaciones diplomáticas (persons employed by diplomatic missions, service personnel of diplomatic representative offices), personal al servicio de las oficinas consulares (persons employed by consular posts, service personnel of consular offices), relación estable y normal entre el personal en activo y el número de pensionistas (normal and stable ratio between the number currently employed and the number receiving pensions). (various references)

Swedish

yrkesarbetande (gainfully employed), ledande nolla (leading zeros, zeros preceding the first non-zero integer of a number.May be employed in the numeric fields of numerical control input blocks to indicate the assumed position of the decimal point within the field). (various references)

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

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

Derivations

Words ending with "employed": coemployed, misemployed, reemployed, subemployed, underemployed, unemployed. (additional references)

Words containing "employed": unemployeds. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Employed" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: emploed, emploie, employa, employe, employeed, employes, enployed, eplayed, imployed. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: employe.

-2 letters: deeply, deploy, eloped, employ, medley, melody, ployed, yelped.

-3 letters: dopey, elope, emyde, epode, loped, model, moldy, moped, mopey, myope, odyle, poled, yodel, yodle.

-4 letters: deem, deep, dele, deme, demo, demy, dole, dome, dope, dopy, eely, elmy, emyd, eyed, lode, lope, meed, meld, mode, mold, mole, moly, mope, mopy, odyl, oldy, oped, peed.

+2 letters: coemployed, deployment, reemployed, unemployed.

+3 letters: deployments, misemployed, polymerised, polymerized, subemployed, unemployeds.

+4 letters: compressedly, depolymerize, epidemiology, redeployment.

+5 letters: copolymerized, depolymerized, depolymerizes, encyclopedism, openmouthedly, predominately, redeployments, underemployed.