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    employed


    1. He had a native woman, he employed natives in a manner they were familiar with


    2. According to the information, he was employed at a local school teaching music having graduated two years earlier, though there was a note that he was on intermittent sick leave due to the serious and debilitating form of migraine from which he suffered


    3. He became so good at sitting and watching and waiting that a local farmer who lived like a feudal lord in one of the bigger mountain villages employed him as a geriatric shepherd boy


    4. ‘I was employed by her parents, who were justifiably terrified for the girl


    5. This is Gonzar, she shares his cabin but isn't employed by the ship


    6. That he is no longer in direct control of the levers of power is a shame, but in his time of greatness he employed a whole army of secretaries and assistants, whose sole job it was to document every fact and every detail of every case and policy so that he could remain true to his principles


    7. Safe and sound on the outside and aided by the proceeds from Danny’s own bank account, together with funds received from an unwitting, Canadian ice hockey player, Annie and her great-aunt employed the services of a very expensive legal practice in the heart of Manchester’s business district


    8. deeds and he employed the cleverest scholars to write true accounts


    9. the technology employed by the prince


    10. Given the obvious levels of security employed

    11. ‘I think I’d better gather up this woman and all her clutter and remove her from your offices, Gary, especially as she is no longer employed here


    12. “Yeah, the temple employed the most expert vintners in the Isles in these days,” Yellelle told her


    13. time of greatness he employed a whole army of secretaries and


    14. employed both men at a very competitive salary and asked them to


    15. alleviated when the Emotion Code is employed


    16. employed the services of a very expensive legal practice in the


    17. It wasn't until I overheard her talking to Millie, our daughter, just before her wedding, that I realised the tactics she'd employed all these years


    18. The business was shipping but most of his warehouse space was actually used as residences by the poor he employed


    19. Ozzie concentrated on his meal, staring into space whenever not employed in filling his mouth


    20. dragon was on the ground, they employed weighted ropes and nets to

    21. When he was little, Harry learned quickly the techniques his father employed in fashioning cane rods


    22. To the untrained man, to the casually aggressive, violence is a blunt instrument wielded on a whim and a skin full, but to Alex it is a tool employed with the loving care of a master craftsman


    23. He was employed on account of that peculiarity of his nature; as the substance of his dealings was more in the arena of corporate reconnaissance, rather than 'over the counter' business


    24. 'But I thought you were employed by the Bishop?' he


    25. and dad employed three men that worked for him year-round


    26. All male children exempted according to an approved criteria, or beyond school age up to the age of eighteen years, not currently apprenticed or otherwise gainfully employed, shall henceforward be required to provide bi-annual proof of employment to this Council at the commencement of Autumn school term and at the end of Spring school term


    27. Lawrence Spelman had begun the arduous process of the disposition of properties no longer deemed useful to themselves, or which might be better employed in the use of others


    28. The Flower employed


    29. He intended to build a proper school house for the town in lieu of the poorly renovated burnt out building provisionally employed for the purpose


    30. employed in its construction, as well as some of his more

    31. He employed more interesting building details for the facade and added a bell tower of sorts, nothing ostentatious just well adapted to the balance and symmetry of the structure


    32. Before I left for Hong Kong in 1977 I was employed as an office clerk in a private business firm and by that time the minimum salary was only 300 pesos a month +50 pesos allowance which was really can't cope on the cost-of-living


    33. He had been working as casual labour in the winter of 2013 employed in the vicinity of Coonabarabran sorting grain


    34. Henri had, indeed, employed someone new this year, and


    35. For several days she had to read manuals on the arcane symbologies employed in the source code for memory recall


    36. These I set up to dry within my circle or hedge, and when they were fit for use I carried them to my cave; and here, during the next season, I employed myself in making, as well as I could, a great many baskets… (‘The life and strange surpising adventures of Robinson Crusoe,’ Daniel Defoe – 1719 – Heirs of Anderson, pub


    37. In this state of things, the whole produce of labour belongs to the labourer; and the quantity of labour commonly employed in acquiring or producing any commodity, is the only circumstance which can regulate the quantity of labour which it ought commonly to purchase, command, or exchange


    38. They are regulated altogether by the value of the stock employed, and are greater or smaller in proportion to the extent of this stock


    39. there are two different manufactures, in each of which twenty workmen are employed, at the rate of fifteen pounds a year each, or at the expense of three hundred a-year in each manufactory


    40. The capital annually employed in the one will, in this case, amount only to one thousand pounds; whereas that employed in the other will amount to seven thousand three hundred pounds

    41. Neither is the quantity of labour commonly employed in acquiring or producing any commodity, the only circumstance which can regulate the quantity which it ought commonly to purchase, command or exchange for


    42. In the price of corn, for example, one part pays the rent of the landlord, another pays the wages or maintenance of the labourers and labouring cattle employed in producing it, and the third pays the profit of the farmer


    43. In the price of sea-fish, for example, one part pays the labour of the fisherman, and the other the profits of the capital employed in the fishery


    44. What remains of the crop, after paying the rent, therefore, should not only replace to them their stock employed in cultivation, together with its ordinary profits, but pay them the wages which are due to them, both as labourers and overseers


    45. As in a civilized country there are but few commodities of which the exchangeable value arises from labour only, rent and profit contributing largely to that of the far greater part of them, so the annual produce of its labour will always be sufficient to purchase or command a much greater quantity of labour than what was employed in raising, preparing, and bringing that produce to market


    46. But there is no country in which the whole annual produce is employed in maintaining the industrious


    47. When the price of any commodity is neither more nor less than what is sufficient to pay the rent of the land, the wages of the labour, and the profits of the stock employed in raising, preparing, and bringing it to market, according to their natural rates, the commodity is then sold for what may be called its natural price


    48. The whole quantity of industry annually employed in order to bring any commodity to market, naturally suits itself in this manner to the effectual demand


    49. It sinks, too, the wages of the workmen employed in preparing such commodities, for which all demand is stopped for six months, perhaps for a twelvemonth


    50. The whole quantity brought to market, therefore, may be disposed of to those who are willing to give more than what is sufficient to pay the rent of the land which produced them, together with the wages of the labour and the profits of the stock which were employed in preparing and bringing them to market, according to their natural rates














































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    Synonyms for "employed"

    employed utilised utilized performing pursuing working

    "employed" definitions

    having your services engaged for; or having a job especially one that pays wages or a salary


    put to use