to employ
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2.2
- verb
- /ɪmˈplɔɪ/
:
utilizar
- Also with painting you can employ the wet on wet method.
- employ methods
- employ techniques
- employ strategies
And how does someone employ that on their own?
- And how does someone employ that on their own?
- Sparrow Hawk was always miserly about employing his arts.
- It just was he doesn't want to get caught and he's employing those, those strategies.
- It's, it's, it's, it's understanding what strategies are being employed by the characters.
- And there are many, many tactics that we could be employing that we don't.
- Any offhand remark can be employed as a tool to end this tradition.
- The ETA maintain all the subsystems that that employ what they call syntactic devices.
- Other specialty gear employed by these Archers included bracelets and rings.
- And so the catch phrase that a lot of bankers have been employing is blockchain, not Bitcoin.
Examples
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I employ a memory technique that gives me almost a hundred percent retention.
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Additionally, teachers like Mike with high efficacy employ practices that provide greater academic focus and specific, detailed feedback.
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And how does someone employ that on their own?
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A lot of them will actually employ them, give them insurance.
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As their university life got on track, the participants learned to employ resources and enhance themselves.
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As long as there were available targets, U.S. forces were able to employ attack aircraft to devastating effect.
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The abridged story was that the methods of data collection and analysis employed by researchers had changed.
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The primary researcher employed a variety of methods to establish the dependability of the data.
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To test the progress of student learning, we employ student demographic profiles, financial characteristics, and student self-evaluations.
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The coach decided to employ a new strategy to improve the team's performance.
Synonyms
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1.0
To put something to work for a purpose
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2.8
Use something for a particular purpose, for example a rule or method
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4.9
To use something for a particular purpose
Antonyms
Idioms
To use much more effort or help than needed to do a small task
How Extensive
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Employ originally meant 'to put into use' and shares a root with words like apply and deploy, so it has always had the idea of making use of something. That's why to employ a method or tool is to 'use' it for a purpose.