employ

employer, embaucher

Payer quelqu’un pour qu’il travaille pour soi.

En anglais simple : 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?

Comment l'utiliser : employ someone as something (The hotel employs her as a cook.); employ someone to do something (We employed someone to clean the office.)

Synonymes : hire, take on

Contraires : dismiss, fire

Expressions courantes : employ someone, employ staff, employ someone full time

utiliser, employer

Se servir d’une méthode, d’un outil ou d’une personne pour obtenir un résultat.

En anglais simple : 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?

Comment l'utiliser : 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.)

Synonymes : use, utilize

Expressions courantes : employ a method, employ a technique, employ a strategy

emploi, service

Fait de travailler pour quelqu’un contre un salaire ; s’emploie généralement dans « in someone's employ ».

En anglais simple : 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.

Comment l'utiliser : in someone's employ (She remained in their employ for ten years.)

Synonymes : employment, service

Expressions courantes : in someone's employ, leave someone's employ