Clues for the word "EMPLOY"
We've had 38 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 110 times in crosswords. It was last seen in Evening Standard Easy crossword on April 03, 2025.
Definition of employ
- v. t. - To inclose; to infold.
- v. t. - To use; to have in service; to cause to be engaged in doing something; -- often followed by in, about, on, or upon, and sometimes by to; as: (a) To make use of, as an instrument, a means, a material, etc., for a specific purpose; to apply; as, to employ the pen in writing, bricks in building, words and phrases in speaking; to employ the mind; to employ one's energies.
- v. t. - To occupy; as, to employ time in study.
- v. t. - To have or keep at work; to give employment or occupation to; to intrust with some duty or behest; as, to employ a hundred workmen; to employ an envoy.
- n. - That which engages or occupies a person; fixed or regular service or business; employment.
Referring Clues
- Wield
- Put to work
- Put on the payroll
- Hire
- Make use of
- Engage
- Take advantage of
- Provide with work
- Have on the payroll
- Take on
- Use
- Bring on
- Add to the staff
- Place on the payroll
- Paid service
- Give paid work to
- Hire for work
- Recruit them by subterfuge
- Backward setter has stratagem to use
- Give work to
- Setter's come up with trick to use
- Badly wanting a maypole to hire
- Give job to
- Use or give job to
- Make use of unfinished polymer formation
- Earl marks device for use
- Take on work
- Utilise
- Use Forster device?
- Use line in poem strangely unknown
- Use space to manoeuvre
- Take on Scouse MP, loyalist at heart
- Give a role to
- Use me to upset the scheme
- Bring on board
- Use a tricky device that gets me upset
- Use, to get me back, a gambit
- Provide with a job
Last Seen In
- Evening Standard Easy - April 03, 2025
- Evening Standard Easy - March 28, 2025
- Daily American - February 13, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - January 30, 2025
- LA Times - January 30, 2025
- Evening Standard Quick - January 29, 2025
- Evening Standard Easy - January 17, 2025
- Evening Standard Easy - January 09, 2025
- Evening Standard Easy - December 20, 2024
- King Syndicate - Thomas Joseph - May 23, 2024
- Evening Standard Easy - April 24, 2024
- Penny Dell Daily - April 04, 2024
- Penny Dell Daily - January 07, 2024
- King Syndicate - Thomas Joseph - November 08, 2023
- Evening Standard Easy - October 03, 2023
- Evening Standard Easy - September 08, 2023
- Evening Standard Easy - August 11, 2023
- New York Times - July 22, 2023
- Penny Dell Daily - March 06, 2023
- Daily American - February 13, 2023
- Evening Standard Easy - January 26, 2023
- King Syndicate - Eugene Sheffer - December 14, 2022
- Penny Dell Daily - November 25, 2022
- Evening Standard Easy - July 28, 2022
- LA Times - July 26, 2022
- Penny Dell Daily - January 01, 2018
- LA Times - December 15, 2017
- Guardian Speedy - September 24, 2017
- Evening Standard Easy - August 01, 2017
- Mirror Quick - July 29, 2017
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