employing
- 1Present participle of employ.
The company is employing hundreds of new staff to meet rising demand.
Employing a calm tone, the negotiator gradually defused the tension.
Note
One spelling does two jobs. After be it forms the progressive (the firm is employing), and as a gerund it works as a noun: a subject, an object, or the complement of a preposition (by employing contractors). Either way it carries every meaning of the verb, from keeping someone on the payroll to putting a tool or tactic to use to keeping someone busy. The object, not the form, tells you which meaning is meant.
Employing local workers has helped the town recover.
She kept the restless children quiet by employing them in the garden.
employing is a form of employ
employ, verb: To keep someone on as a paid employee. Full entry
- Spelling
- employ → employing: add -ing
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