LekhoriLekhoriThe state of being an employee; employment.
The school district has six thousand teachers in its employ.
An occupation.
Still he wrote on. He was too much engrossed in his own charmed employ not to be insensible for a time to all external influences: he might suffer afterwards, but now his mind was his kingdom.
From late Middle English emploien, imploien, emplien (“to apply to a specific purpose”), from Anglo-Norman emploier, Old French emploiier (“to entangle, fabricate, to make use of”), ultimately from La...
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The act of employing someone or making use of something; employment.
Notwithstanding the employ of general and local bleeding, blisters, &c., the patient died on the fourth day after entrance.