Synonyms of employing

employing

verb

present participle of employ

1

as in hiring

to provide with a paying job

a new factory that will employ 500 people

Synonyms & Similar Words

• hiring
• recruiting
• engaging
• placing
• retaining
• paying
• enlisting
• assuming
• signing (up or on)
• taking on
• laying on
• feeing
• promoting
• jobbing
• partnering
• subcontracting
• contracting
• rehiring
• upgrading
• reemploying
• apprenticing
• reengaging
• scouting
• keeping (on)
• advancing
• headhunting

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• dismissing
• firing
• discharging
• sacking
• canning
• axing
• laying off
• furloughing
• locking out

2

as in using

to put into action or service

looking for a job in which she can employ her considerable writing skills

Synonyms & Similar Words

• using
• utilizing
• applying
• exploiting
• harnessing
• operating
• exercising
• drawing on
• making use of
• wielding
• manipulating
• handling
• bringing to bear
• working
• directing
• recycling
• running
• reusing
• cannibalizing

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• ignoring
• neglecting
• misusing
• misapplying

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of employing

Distribution among company size was relatively balanced, with firms employing fewer than 50 people leading with 23,000 new jobs. — Jeff Cox, CNBC, 5 Aug. 2026

Many skeptics see a contradiction in high-achieving, mostly white young voters employing rhetoric about labor and solidarity. — Jay Caspian Kang, New Yorker, 4 Aug. 2026

But instead of employing a ball gown, glass slippers, and a grand carriage made from a pumpkin, the renegade maid comes to her damsel in distress armed with a different kind of escape plan—one involving an axe and a double parricide. — Savannah Walsh, Vanity Fair, 4 Aug. 2026

Netanyahu has a long history of employing such tactics and did so again during the Gaza war. — Dafna H. Rand, Foreign Affairs, 4 Aug. 2026

Fishing for striped bass near this kind of structure can be productive in the summer and fall, sometimes by employing vertical jigging with hefty spoons or soft plastics to entice fish patrolling the bottom. — Ken Perrotte, USA Today, 4 Aug. 2026

Gunther, however, consistently taunted Aldis's wife, Mickie James, and son at ringside, employing a brutal, methodical approach. — Alfred Konuwa, Forbes.com, 1 Aug. 2026

Hill says that diatomaceous earth is a pest control method that tackles the issue physically, rather than by employing synthetic pesticides. — Abby Monteil, The Spruce, 1 Aug. 2026

The newer Kobe variant diverges by employing Knicks blue and orange through a splatter pattern on its eyestay panel and heel counter, as well as underneath a translucent blue outsole. — Ian Servantes, Footwear News, 29 July 2026