employs
Sayim-PLOYZ/ɪmˈplɔɪz/
- 1Third-person singular simple present of employ.
The company employs more than a thousand workers across three plants.
The author employs short sentences to build tension in the final chapter.
Note
The ordinary -s form, with no spelling change: because a vowel comes before the y, it is employs, not employies, just as with enjoys and destroys. It carries every verb meaning of employ: keeping people on staff, putting a tool or technique to use, keeping someone busy. The sense of newly hiring someone is rare, so a company that employs a thousand workers already has them.
employs is a form of employ
employ, verb: To keep someone on as a paid employee. Full entry
- Spelling
- employ → employs: add -s
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /z/.
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