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employed

adjectiveverbcommon in dialogue

  • //ɪmˈplɔɪd//
  • //ɛmˈplɔɪd//

In a job; working.

adjective

  1. 1

    In a job; working.

    You're just looking for a handout like every other—are you employed, Mr. Lebowski?

  2. 2

    Used; in use.

    Studies on LLS in recent decades have identified a large number of strategies which are employed by English as a foreign/second language (EFL/ESL) learners and several strategy categorisation patterns have also been established.

verb

  1. 1

    Also a form of employsimple past and past participle of employ

Forms

comparative
more employed
superlative
most employed
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Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).