employ

emplear, contratar

Pagar a alguien para que trabaje para ti.

En inglés sencillo: If you employ someone, you pay them to work for you.

• The shop employs five people.
• They employed me as a driver.
• Does your company employ students during the summer?

Cómo se usa: employ someone as something (The hotel employs her as a cook.); employ someone to do something (We employed someone to clean the office.)

Sinónimos: hire, take on

Antónimos: dismiss, fire

Expresiones frecuentes: employ someone, employ staff, employ someone full time

utilizar, emplear

Usar un método, una herramienta o una persona para conseguir algo.

En inglés sencillo: To use a method, tool, or person to achieve something.

• We employ several methods.
• She employed humour to calm the audience.
• Which techniques did they employ in the study?

Cómo se usa: employ something to do something (The researchers employed cameras to track the birds.); employ something in doing something (They employed new tools in analysing the data.)

Sinónimos: use, utilize

Expresiones frecuentes: employ a method, employ a technique, employ a strategy

empleo, servicio

Situación de trabajar para alguien a cambio de un sueldo; suele aparecer en «in someone's employ».

En inglés sencillo: The state of working for someone who pays you, usually in the phrase 'in someone's employ'.

• He is in my employ.
• She left the company's employ last spring.
• Several gardeners were in the family's employ.

Cómo se usa: in someone's employ (She remained in their employ for ten years.)

Sinónimos: employment, service

Expresiones frecuentes: in someone's employ, leave someone's employ