- 2. Use, apply, make use of.
- 3. Intrust with an agency, enlist in one’s service, give employment to.
Employ, n. (Poetical.) See employment.
Employé, n. [Fr.] Agent, clerk, servant, hand, employee.
Employment, n.
- 1. Business, occupation, engagement, pursuit, vocation, avocation, calling, profession, trade, craft, employ.
- 2. Service, agency, office, employ.
- 3. Employing, use, application.
- 4. Busy state, being busied, occupation, engrossment.
Emporium, n. Mart, market, place of trade, commercial city.
Empoverish, v. a. [Written also Impoverish.]
- 1. Make poor, bring to want, reduce to indigence.
- 2. Make less fertile, deprive or strip of fertility.
Empower, v. a.
- 1. Authorize, commission, warrant, qualify, give authority to.
- 2. Enable, make able.
Emptiness, n.
- 1. Empty state or condition, vacancy, destitution of contents.
- 2. Destitution, lack of supplies, want of furniture.
- 3. Vacuity, vacuum, void, void space, vacancy.
- 4. Unsatisfactoriness, unsatisfyingness, vanity, hollowness, unreality.
- 5. Triviality, frivolity, trifling, senselessness, silliness, destitution of sense.