employs

Has on staff

Employs is the third-person singular of employ, meaning to hire someone for work or to make use of something.

A company employs fifty workers.

A writer employs irony to make a point.

The word suggests purposeful, active use—you employ a strategy, a tool, or a technique to accomplish something.

utilizes

uses

Employs or applications

exercises · leverages · harnesses · adopts · engages · mobilizes · exploits · invokes · puts to use · avails

workforce

staff

Organization's workers collectively

crew · labor · payroll · human resources · workplace · headcount · workforce · manpower · hands · operatives

hires

recruit

New member sought

vacancy · job · position · offer · applicant · onboarding · talent · headhunter · staffing · shortlist

tools

method

Orderly way of doing

device · mechanism · approach · instrument · means · system · procedure · process · apparatus · scheme

Categories
Opposites
employment status

employsfires

Discharges from employment

dismisses · terminates · discharges · sacks · lays off

use/utilization

employsabandons

Ceases to support

discards · rejects · ignores · neglects · foregoes

Phrases
Family

employ, employee, employment, employer, employed, unemployed, unemployment, employees, employing

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