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# employed

«employed» in Mova's school dictionary: **Having a paid job** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

adjective; past form of the verb employ (employ, employs, employed, employing)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Having a paid job. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/employed/#m1)

2) (past form) Gave someone a job and paid them. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/employed/#m2)

3) (formal) Used: "the method employed". [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/employed/#m3)

4) Employed can also mean kept busy doing something. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/employed/#m4)

### sense in the lessons

In everyday life and maths: "the shop employed 8 workers" means it had 8 people working for pay. In exam language, "the method employed" means the method used. Phrases: self-employed, employed by, employed as.

### examples

- My aunt is employed at the hospital. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/employed/#x1)
- The bakery employed six people. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/employed/#x2)
- He is self-employed and runs his own shop. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/employed/#x3)
- The method employed in the experiment was simple. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/employed/#x4)
- She was employed as a lifeguard for the summer. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/employed/#x5)
- The farm employed extra workers at harvest. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/employed/#x6)
- Next morning early, Jack asked how he'd be employed that day. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/employed/#x7)

### note

Nouns: employer (the boss who pays), employee (the worker), employment (work). Opposite: unemployed. In maths, number employed = number of workers; wages × workers gives the total paid.

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «employed» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/employed/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.