Employ vs Pozzy - What's the difference?

Employ is a related term of pozzy.

As nouns the difference between employ and pozzy

is that employ is the state of being an employee; employment while pozzy is (uk|military slang) jam (fruit conserve made from fruit boiled with sugar) or pozzy can be a firing position.

As a verb employ

is to hire (somebody for work or a job).

employ

English

Alternative forms

* (l) (obsolete)

Noun

(en noun)

The state of being an employee; employment.

''The school district has six thousand teachers in its employ .

Synonyms

* employment * hire

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

, title= Alzheimer’s Disease , volume=101, issue=3, page=200, magazine=(American Scientist) , passage=Similar studies of rats have employed four different intracranial resorbable, slow sustained release systems—surgical foam, a thermal gel depot, a microcapsule or biodegradable polymer beads.}}

*{{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-07, author=(Gary Younge)

, volume=188, issue=26, page=18, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly) , title= Hypocrisy lies at heart of Manning prosecution , passage=The dispatches […] also exposed the blatant discrepancy between the west's professed values and actual foreign policies. Having lectured the Arab world about democracy for years, its collusion in suppressing freedom was undeniable as protesters were met by weaponry and tear gas made in the west, employed by a military trained by westerners.}}

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

Derived terms

* employee * employer * employment

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pozzy

English

Etymology 1

Unclear, perhaps from a southern African language; from late 19thC, revived during World War I.

Noun

(-)

(UK, military slang) Jam (fruit conserve made from fruit boiled with sugar).

*1929 , (Frederic Manning), The Middle Parts of Fortune , Vintage 2014, p. 136:

*:‘Could you pinch a tin of pozzy out of stores?’

* 1929 , , 1995, page 170:

The Turco used to say: ‘Tommy, give Johnny pozzy ,’ and a tin of plum and apple jam used to be given him.

Derived terms

* pozzy-wallah

Etymology 2

From , with spelling shift; variant of possie.

Alternative forms

* possie

Noun

(pozzies)

A firing position.

* 1916 , various ANZAC soldiers, The Anzac Book , page 10,

and Jerry O?Dwyer had shot two crows from the new sniper?s pozzy down at the creek-—and so on.

* 1942 , Charles Edwin Woodrow Bean, Official History of Australia in the War of 1914–1918, Volume III: The Australian Imperial Force in France, 1916 , 13th(?) Edition, page 340,

Brown himself, unaware even that there was an officer among his captives, picked up his rifle, went back to his “pozzy ,” and dismissed the incident from his mind

* 1975 , William D. Joynt, Saving the Channel Ports, 1918 , page 84,

They had also wonderful confidence in their leaders — they knew the best pozzy would be taken up.

(Australia, New Zealand, colloquial) A position or place, especially one that is advantageous.

* 1971 , , Cold Stone Jug , page 36,

So I says to him, no, I can?t go back to the pozzy I?m sharing with Snowy Fisher and the late Pap.

* 2006 , Pip Wilson, Faces in the Street: Louisa and Henry Lawson and the Castlereagh Street Push , page 62,

Stretching his legs has been good for him, and this Pitt-street pozzy near the GPO is a splendid spot for a sandwich and a good book.