how to pronounce employ

/ɛmpˈlɔɪ/

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employ is pronounced in two syllables

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An example use of employ in a speech by a native speaker of american english:

“… mission is to employ and support …”

meaning of employ

Employ means to engage in a business or profession.

employ frequency in english - C1 level of CEFR

the word employ occurs in english on average 7.3 times per one million words; this frequency warrants it to be in the study list for C1 level of language mastery according to CEFR, the Common European Framework of Reference.

topics employ can be related to

it is hard to perfectly classify words into specific topics since each word can have many context of its use, but our machine-learning models believe that employ can be often used in the following areas:

1) business and work;