- be employed in doing sth
- be employed in doing sth FORMAL► to spend time doing something: »
We have been employed in updating the catalogue for most of the morning.
Main Entry: ↑employ
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be employed in doing sth
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(be) employed in doing something — be employed in doing sth idiom if a person or their time is employed in doing sth, the person spends time doing that thing • She was employed in making a list of all the jobs to be done. Main entry: ↑employidiom … Useful english dictionary
employ — em‧ploy [ɪmˈplɔɪ] verb [transitive] HUMAN RESOURCES to pay someone to work for you: • The company employs 2000 people worldwide. employ somebody as something • He is employed as a baggage handler at the airport. employ somebody to do something … Financial and business terms
employ — 1 /Im plOI/ verb (T) 1 to pay someone to work for you: The company employs 2000 people worldwide. | be employed as sth: Dave is employed as a baggage handler at the airport. | employ sb to do sth: Freelance consultants have been employed to look… … Longman dictionary of contemporary English
employ — em|ploy1 W2S2 [ımˈplɔı] v [T] [Date: 1400 1500; : French; Origin: emploier to use , from Latin implicare; IMPLICATE] 1.) to pay someone to work for you ▪ The factory employs over 2000 people. employ sb as sth ▪ Kelly is employed as a mechanic … Dictionary of contemporary English
have — have1 W1S1 [v, əv, həv strong hæv] auxiliary v past tense and past participle had [d, əd, həd strong hæd] third person singular has [z, əz, həz strong hæz] [: Old English; Origin: habban] 1.) used with past participles to form ↑perfect tenses ▪… … Dictionary of contemporary English
watch — 1 verb 1 LOOK AT (I, T) to look at and pay attention to something that is happening: Do you want to join in or just sit and watch? | watch sb/sth: Harriet watched the man with interest as he walked in. | watch sb do/doing sth: Jack watched them… … Longman dictionary of contemporary English
employ — verb 1 pay sb to work ADVERB ▪ actively, directly ▪ By 1960 the arms industry directly employed 3.5 million people. ▪ indirectly ▪ currently ▪ … Collocations dictionary
with — W1S1 [wıð, wıθ] prep [: Old English; Origin: against, from, with ] 1.) used to say that two or more people or things are together in the same place ▪ I saw Bob in town with his girlfriend. ▪ Put this bag with the others. ▪ I always wear these… … Dictionary of contemporary English
Active — A market in which there is much trading. The New York Times Financial Glossary * * * active ac‧tive [ˈæktɪv] adjective 1. FINANCE if trading or a market is active, there is a lot of buying and selling: • Hong Kong shares advanced in active… … Financial and business terms
active — A market in which there is frequent trading. Bloomberg Financial Dictionary Trading in the security has commenced or the security has been re activated after a suspension in trading. Euroclear Clearing and Settlement glossary * * * active ac‧tive … Financial and business terms
