employed
/ɪmˈplɔɪd/
adjective
- Having a paid job; working for someone else or for yourself.
- He is self-employed and runs his own bakery.
- The employed population in the city has grown this year.
- She is employed as a software engineer at a tech company.
Antonyms
verb
- Past tense of employ; to give work to someone and pay them for it.
- She employed a tutor to help her son with math.
- The company employed new strategies to increase sales.
- The factory employed over 200 workers last year.
- Past tense of employ; to use something for a particular purpose.
- They employed a hammer to break the wall.
- The writer employed vivid imagery in her novel.
- The chef employed a special technique to make the sauce.