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

Now here’s another thing, the employers, the employers that are employing these. — Max Grinstein, The Washington Examiner, 24 July 2026

Honeywell has since exceeded that target, currently employing more than 1,100 local workers. — Chase Jordan july 23, Charlotte Observer, 23 July 2026

Lastly, Rieder has been employing option strategies to sell rate volatility. — Michelle Fox, CNBC, 23 July 2026

Genting Group has been operating in Southeast Queens for 15 years, welcoming about 5 million visitors annually and employing around 2,500 people. — Yessar Rosendar, Forbes.com, 23 July 2026

Instead of employing the traditional counter-narcotics strategy of eradicating coca, RenHacemos promotes substitution – providing farmers with the means to grow alternative cash crops. — Angie Acosta M, Miami Herald, 22 July 2026

His paintings and sculptures are known for their use of biomorphic forms, with his canvases employing an all-over approach to abstraction. — Maximilíano Durón, ARTnews.com, 21 July 2026

The companies said the NSMV program helped transform the facility from a largely dormant shipyard employing only a few dozen workers into a site with more than 2,000 production workers. — Atharva Gosavi, Interesting Engineering, 18 July 2026

In a paper published this month in PLOS One, Alaei and her colleagues propose an alternative - employing a suite of superworms, a kind of hefty beetle larva that can capably pick a variety of animal skeletons clean. — Ari Daniel, NPR, 17 July 2026