to reemploy

Examples

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• From the U.S. Chamber's Chief Economist, Dr. Regalia, "While the overall tenor of the job market improved last month, payroll employment increased at a more subdued rate of 114,000 in September, far too slow to reemploy the millions who remain unemployed or underemployed."

  Blog text (8)

• In response, board conciliator J. L. Bernard encouraged plant officials to reopen as soon as possible and to reemploy former workers without prejudice.

  Academic text (2007)

• Reemploy expert workers and save the day.

  Blog text (1)

• Can you reemploy them?

  Academic text (2000)

• But there is widespread agreement that, for whatever reasons, long periods of unemployment tend to make it tougher to get reemployed.

  Blog text (3)

• The majority of workers laid off from the state sector prefer to be reemployed by their original work units or by other work units in that sector (or the collective sector) rather than in the private sector.

  Academic text (2001)

• Some Africans, having developed a certain familiarity with a particular colonial officer, would go as far as to wait for his reappointment to be reemployed by him.

  Fiction book (1997)

• After being laid off for several months, she was thrilled to be reemployed by her previous company.

• Many former employees are eager to be reemployed once the company resumes operations next year.

Synonyms

R

to reappoint

vsto reemploy

• Formal

5 3.8

Give someone the same job again after their term ends

focuses on returning someone to their former job after leaving or losing it

R

to reengage

vsto reemploy

1 5.0

Bring someone back to work for you after they left

returns someone to the same previous job after they left or lost it

Antonyms

F

to fire

∞ 2.8

To officially make someone leave their job

D

to dismiss

70 3.3

To remove someone from their job

Surface Forms

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