"employ" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés

employ verbo

employ + sustantivo
Kolokacji: 98
employ techniques • employ methods • employ several people • employ several workers • employ several staff • employ several men • ...
collocations grouped by meanings
Grup znaczeniowych: 24
(4) teacher, student
Kolokacji: 2
(7) woman, nurse
Kolokacji: 2
(8) number, logic
Kolokacji: 2
(9) cofactor, material
Kolokacji: 2
(11) device, power, skill, element
Kolokacji: 4
(14) agent, officer, spy
Kolokacji: 3
1. employ agents = agenci zatrudnienia employ agents
2. employ several officers = zatrudnij kilku urzędników employ several officers
3. employ spies = szpiedzy zatrudnienia employ spies
  • Herod was a cruel ruler who employed spies and informants, foreign officials and customs agents.
  • I knew he employed spies.
  • Beyond proving that you employ capable spies, what does it show?
  • Someone was obviously interested in his movements, and that someone had employed better spies.
  • Elizabeth's ministers had to employ spies and even use torture to gain information about threats to her life.
  • "You mean, the senator employs spies ..." "Not only the senator," she said darkly.
  • "They would employ skulking spies in an emergency - and men of the spy caliber might murder!"
  • Naturally, I employ spies of my own.
  • Beyond doubt they employed spies.
  • He employs spies and bribes clerks, that sort of thing.
(15) labor, laborer
Kolokacji: 2
(16) artist, architect, musician
Kolokacji: 3
(17) variety, type
Kolokacji: 2
(18) immigrant, alien
Kolokacji: 2
(19) time, approach, others
Kolokacji: 3
(20) humor, resource
Kolokacji: 2
(21) imagery, theme, idea, motif
Kolokacji: 4
(23) resident, doctor
Kolokacji: 2
(24) violence, mechanic
Kolokacji: 2
verbo + employ
Kolokacji: 3
continue to employ • report employing • begin employing
employ + preposición
Kolokacji: 31
employed by • employed in • employed against • employed during • employed at • ...
employ + adjetivo/adverbio
Kolokacji: 75
commonly employed • frequently employed • directly employed • later employed • once employed • ...

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