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employed

employed

142 1.0
Having a paid job
  • adjective
  • /ɪmˈplɔɪd/
: empleado
  • She has been employed at a local bakery for three years.

All of those jobs went to people who were already employed that are part time jobs.

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Examples

  • In addition, many working parents out there are employed in hourly wage jobs.

  • I am employed by Ipswich as a coach.

  • A record number of young Americans are now employed, mostly campaigning for Bernie.

  • Tafatsu says Burrow is now employed in translating Apollonius.

  • After finishing school, he was quickly employed as an assistant manager.

  • Many graduates find it challenging to get employed in their chosen fields.

Synonyms

working
vsemployed
612 1.0

Having a job and earning money from it

covers having a paid job whether active or not
hired
vsemployed
71 1.1

A person paid to do a job for someone

refers to being in paid work as an ongoing state after initial job start
on the payroll
vsemployed
46 2.8

Employed and receiving regular pay from a company

is any paid job not limited to regular company salary
engaged
vsemployed
4 2.9

Hired to do a particular job

applies to any paid work generally rather than one specific task
wage-earning
vsemployed
2 3.7

People who work for pay, often in manual or hourly jobs

covers paid work broadly, not only hourly or manual earnings

Antonyms

unemployed
204 1.7

Without work and looking for a job

Compounds

self-employed person
2 3.6

A person who works for themselves and has no employer

How Employed

employed
142 1.0
part-time
67 1.4
casual
  • UK
2 5.6
unemployed
204 1.7

Surface Forms

employed positive

Morphology

employed = employ (transparent) = employ + ed

Formed by the verb 'employ' plus the past-participle/adjectival suffix '-ed', so the meaning 'having a job' is directly derived.

Etymology

Employed comes from the verb employ, which meant 'to use' or 'to put to work', like using a tool or hiring a helper such as an employee. So to be employed is to be 'put to work' for pay, which is why it means having a paid job.