employed
part of speech
adjective; past form of the verb employ (employ, employs, employed, employing)
meaning for a pupil
1) Having a paid job. tree →
2) (past form) Gave someone a job and paid them. tree →
3) (formal) Used: "the method employed". tree →
4) Employed can also mean kept busy doing something. tree →
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 →
- The bakery employed six people. tree →
- He is self-employed and runs his own shop. tree →
- The method employed in the experiment was simple. tree →
- She was employed as a lifeguard for the summer. tree →
- The farm employed extra workers at harvest. tree →
- Next morning early, Jack asked how he'd be employed that day. tree →
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, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.