how to pronounce employ

/ɪmˈplɔɪ/

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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 british english:

“… we've got to employ our little tiller …”

meaning of employ

Employ means to engage in a business or profession.

employ frequency in english - B2 level of CEFR

the word employ occurs in english on average 17.4 times per one million words; this frequency warrants it to be in the study list for B2 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;