Verb

(en verb)

To hire (somebody for work or a job).

* 1668 July 3rd, , “Thomas Rue contra'' Andrew Hou?toun” in ''The Deci?ions of the Lords of Council & Se??ion I (Edinburgh, 1683), page 547

Andrew Hou?toun'' and ''Adam Mu?het'', being Tack?men of the Excize, did Imploy ''Thomas Rue'' to be their Collector, and gave him a Sallary of 30. pound ''Sterling for a year.

*{{quote-book, year=1959, author=(Georgette Heyer), title=(The Unknown Ajax), chapter=1

, passage=Charles had not been employed above six months at Darracott Place, but he was not such a whopstraw as to make the least noise in the performance of his duties when his lordship was out of humour.}}

To use (somebody for a job, or something for a task).

* 1598 , (William Shakespeare), (Othello) , Act 1, Scene iii:

Valiant Othello, we must straight employ you / against the general enemy Ottoman.

* (Joseph Addison) (1672-1719)

This is a day in which the thoughtsought to be employed on serious subjects.

*{{quote-magazine, year=2013, month=May-June, author= Charles T. Ambrose

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To make busy.

* 1598 , (William Shakespeare), (The Merchant of Venice) , Act 2, Scene viii:

Let it not enter in your mind of love: / Be merry, and employ your chiefest thoughts / to courtship and such fair ostents of love / as shall conveniently become you there

Verb

To impel or urge onward by force; to push forward; to compel to move on.

to drive sheep out of a field

* Jowett (Thucyd.)

A storm came on and drove them into Pylos.

(intransitive) To direct a vehicle powered by a horse, ox or similar animal.

*

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To cause animals to flee out of.

To move (something) by hitting it with great force.

To cause (a mechanism) to operate.

(ergative) To operate (a wheeled motorized vehicle).

To motivate; to provide an incentive for.

To compel (to do something).

To cause to become.

*

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(cricket) To hit the ball with a .

To travel by operating a wheeled motorized vehicle.

To convey (a person, etc) in a wheeled motorized vehicle.

To move forcefully.

* Dryden

Fierce Boreas drove against his flying sails.

* Prescott

under cover of the night and a driving tempest

* Tennyson

Time driveth onward fast, / And in a little while our lips are dumb.

* {{quote-news, year=2010, date=December 29, author=Mark Vesty, work=BBC

, title= Wigan 2-2 Arsenal , passage=The impressive Frenchman drove forward with purpose down the right before cutting infield and darting in between Vassiriki Diaby and Koscielny. }}

To urge, press, or bring to a point or state.

* Tennyson

enough to drive one mad

* Sir Philip Sidney

He, driven to dismount, threatened, if I did not do the like, to do as much for my horse as fortune had done for his.

To carry or to keep in motion; to conduct; to prosecute.

* Collier

The trade of life can not be driven without partners.

(Francis Bacon)

To clear, by forcing away what is contained.

* Dryden

to drive the country, force the swains away

(mining) To dig horizontally; to cut a horizontal gallery or tunnel.

(Tomlinson)

(obsolete) To distrain for rent.