EMPLOYING Synonyms: 61 Similar and Opposite Words

employing

verb

present participle of employ

as in hiring

to provide with a paying job a new factory that will employ 500 people

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as in using

to put into action or service looking for a job in which she can employ her considerable writing skills

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Recent Examples of employing The aircraft’s multi-role design also gives commanders greater flexibility in employing it for different missions rather than limiting it to the traditional air-superiority role associated with earlier Eagle variants. — Prabhat Ranjan Mishra, Interesting Engineering, 4 Sep. 2026 Almost all of the gains came from big business, with companies employing 500 or more workers adding 34,000 while those with fewer than 50 employees rose by 3,000. — Jeff Cox, CNBC, 2 Sep. 2026 At the time, Combs denied ever employing gang members as part of his and his label’s security detail. — Preezy Brown, VIBE.com, 2 Sep. 2026 According to Tisch, Cisneros then waved her knives and began to advance on the officers, who attempted to subdue the woman with a Taser before employing lethal force. — Chris Spargo, PEOPLE, 1 Sep. 2026 The losses piled up despite the franchise employing two of the greatest players in recent MLB history. — Kurt Badenhausen, Sportico.com, 1 Sep. 2026 Every single registration fee goes directly toward freeing, employing and empowering trafficked women. — Caroline Ritzie, Cincinnati Enquirer, 30 Aug. 2026 Through the new focus on South Miami-Dade, Beasley also wants employers to understand the benefits of employing people from the area. — Michael Butler, Miami Herald, 29 Aug. 2026 The idea of employing microbes to transform waste carbon into something useful is far from novel. — Mike McRae 28, New Atlas, 28 Aug. 2026

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But incredibly, that failure actually paved the way for his return to the competition last season, with Benfica hiring him just weeks later.

— Dermot Corrigan, New York Times, 8 Sep. 2026
Restaurants and bars led hiring with 59,000 new jobs, and local government education added 42,000, largely reversing a dip the month before.

— Sheryl Estrada, Fortune, 8 Sep. 2026

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Researchers in the United States are shaping the nanoscience frontier, using atomic‑scale control to accelerate advances in electronics, energy storage, catalysis, sensing and medicine.

— Prabhat Ranjan Mishra, Interesting Engineering, 10 Sep. 2026
Countries where high schoolers reported using digital devices for around two to three hours per day in school saw higher test scores, but scores fell once tech use climbed beyond that.

— Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 10 Sep. 2026

Definition of using

Verb

Fenerbahce got in on the act by recruiting Nathan Ake from Manchester City and Greenwood from Marseille, bluntly unconcerned by the latter’s past.

— Nick Miller, New York Times, 6 Sep. 2026
But the administration, led by Deputy Defense Secretary Steve Feinberg, has pushed ahead, recruiting bankers to help wield a loan authority that has swelled from $1 billion to $200 billion thanks to the recent Republican party-line tax bill.

— Eleanor Mueller, semafor.com, 2 Sep. 2026

Definition of recruiting

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With the speedy Keaschall on third base, Kyle Finnegan on the mound and Detroit utilizing a five-man infield, the Twins simply needed a fly ball from Kody Clemens.

— Dan Hayes, New York Times, 3 Sep. 2026
As foundation models have matured over the last few years, the sophistication of the creators utilizing them has grown as well.

— Coco Mao, Forbes.com, 1 Sep. 2026

Definition of utilizing

Verb

The billionaire chairman and CEO of WorldQuant has been a pioneer in applying AI and other technologies to vast collections of data, looking to build predictive models from historical information.

— Andrew Edgecliffe-Johnson, semafor.com, 11 Sep. 2026
The tradeoff is that applying for the new card will typically result in a hard inquiry, which may cause a small, but temporary, credit score decline.

— Angelica Leicht, CBS News, 10 Sep. 2026

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