employed
Holding a job
Employed means having a job or being put to use.
Someone who is employed works for wages or salary: She's been employed at the hospital for ten years.
The word also describes things being utilized: Every available resource was employed in the search.
The employed, as a noun, refers collectively to people who have jobs, often contrasted with the unemployed.
Already been employed
- appliedPut into practice
- deployedPositioned for use
- harnessedControlled and directed
- leveragedEmployed for advantage
implemented · exercised · adopted · enlisted · mobilized · invoked
Currently in use
- busyActively occupied with tasks
- utilizedPut to work
- deployedPositioned for use
- appliedPut into practice
devoted · dedicated · absorbed · active · involved · committed · focused · purposeful
Paid position of employment
- workplaceEmployment location
- workforceAll available workers
- staffOrganization's workers collectively
- colleagueProfessional associate
boss · supervisor · manager · office · full-time · part-time · white-collar · blue-collar
Fixed periodic employment payment
- wagesPayment for work
- earningsMoney gained from work
- paycheckCompensation for labor
- compensationPayment for services rendered
remuneration · benefits · bonus · commission · stipend · livelihood · payroll · pension
One's regular paid work
- professionTrained occupational field
- vocationDedicated career path
- fieldArea of specialty
- industryEconomic production sector
trajectory · advancement · promotion · tenure · specialization · expertise · qualification · mentorship
Seeking new personnel
- appointmentScheduled time for something
- onboardingNew member integration process
- probationSupervised trial period
- orientationPosition relative to surroundings
placement · candidate · incumbent · vacancy · filling · enlistment · acceptance · confirmation
used
Already been employed
leveraged · implemented · exercised · adopted · enlisted · mobilized · invoked
occupied
Currently in use
applied · devoted · dedicated · absorbed · active · involved · committed · focused · purposeful
job
Paid position of employment
colleague · boss · supervisor · manager · office · full-time · part-time · white-collar · blue-collar · salaryman
salary
Fixed periodic employment payment
compensation · remuneration · benefits · bonus · commission · stipend · livelihood · payroll · pension · severance
occupation
One's regular paid work
- professionTrained occupational field
- vocationDedicated career path
- fieldArea of specialty
industry · trajectory · advancement · promotion · tenure · specialization · expertise · qualification · mentorship · ladder
recruitment
Seeking new personnel
- appointmentScheduled time for something
- onboardingNew member integration process
- probationSupervised trial period
orientation · placement · candidate · incumbent · vacancy · filling · enlistment · acceptance · confirmation · contract
- workforceworkers, labor force, worker, labor, staffing
- employment statushired, fired, retired, laid off, terminated
- residentsresident, residents, inhabitants, inhabitant, local
- wealth statuspoor, rich, wealthy, affluent, middle-class
- operationaloperational, functioning, working, running, active
- demographicspopulation density, population growth, age distribution, population, gender ratio
employedunemployed
Without a job
jobless · out of work · without work · workless · laid off
- employee relationsWorkplace interpersonal management
- employment securityProtection against losing work
- employment agencyService matching workers to positions
- employees onlyAccess restricted to workers
- overseas employmentJob in foreign country
- employee benefitsNon-wage workplace compensation
employ, employee, employment, employer, unemployed, unemployment, employees, employing, employs