Employ vs Used - What's the difference?
employ | used |
The state of being an employee; employment.
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),
*{{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:
* (Joseph Addison) (1672-1719)
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, title= To make busy.
* 1598 , (William Shakespeare), (The Merchant of Venice) , Act 2, Scene viii:
(use)
* 1948 , , North from Mexico / The Spanish-Speaking People of The United States , J. B. Lippincott Company, page 75
(intransitive, as an auxiliary verb, now only in past tense) to perform habitually; to be accustomed [to doing something]
That is or has or have been used.
* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-08-03, volume=408, issue=8847, magazine=(The Economist)
, title= That has or have previously been owned by someone else.
Familiar through use; usual; accustomed.
* 1965 , (Bob Dylan), (Like a Rolling Stone)
As verbs the difference between employ and used
is that employ is to hire (somebody for work or a job) while used is (use).As a noun employ
is the state of being an employee; employment.As an adjective used is
that is or has or have been used.employ
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Alternative forms
* (l) (obsolete)Noun
(en noun)- ''The school district has six thousand teachers in its employ .
Synonyms
* employment * hireVerb
(en verb)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.
- Valiant Othello, we must straight employ you / against the general enemy Ottoman.
- This is a day in which the thoughtsought to be employed on serious subjects.
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- 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 * employmentExternal links
* * *used
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Verb
(head)- In 1866 Colonel J. F. Meline noted that the rebozo had almost disappeared in Santa Fe and that hoop skirts, on sale in the stores, were being widely used .
- You used me!
- He used to live here, but moved away last year.
Adjective
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- Nobody's ever taught you how to live out on the street and now you're gonna have to get used to it.