单词 | employed |
释义 | employed, ppl. a.|ɛmˈplɔɪd| [f. employ v. + -ed.] That is in (another's) employ. Also absol. with pl. sense, the wage-earning class.
1625Bacon Ess. Travel. (Arb.) 523 The Secretaries, and Employd Men of Ambassadours. 1670R. Coke Disc. Trade 55 You must do it as the imployed English please. 1818Canning in Parl. Deb. 964 An employed informer, and consequently a spy. 1860Gen. P. Thompson Audi Alt. III. cxxiv. 76 Attachment to the class of the employed, rather than of the employers. Hence † emˈployedness, the condition of being seriously busy. Obs. rare—1.
a1691Boyle Wks. VI. 48 (R.) Rhetoric and care of language [are not] consistent with..employedness. |

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