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

Relevance

Antonyms & Near Antonyms
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

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

Example Sentences

Examples are automatically compiled from online sources to show current usage. Read More Opinions expressed in the examples do not represent those of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
Recent Examples of employing But does employing it Saturday point to a lack of starting depth in the system? — Paul Sullivan, Chicago Tribune, 20 June 2026 California is among the largest markets for freight trucking, employing more than 130,000 drivers. — Los Angeles Times, 21 June 2026 The case garnered national interest because Oregon's new law targets the loopholes large staffing firms have been employing to circumvent state corporate medicine laws. — Alex Olgin, NPR, 3 July 2026 Web developers and digital designers These workers build websites and apps, employing both coding and visual design skills. — Daniel De Visé, USA Today, 19 June 2026 For gardeners who have stayed on top of their pest mitigation practices since last fall, this means now is the time to begin employing more extensive practices to control populations just beginning to show up. — Anthony Reardon, Kansas City Star, 20 June 2026 The metaphor of a ‘wall of separation’ At the same time, religious reformers were employing concepts of walls, hedges or other barriers to ensure that the secular and religious realms remained apart. — Steven K. Green, The Conversation, 2 July 2026 Recent legislative changes have already eaten at margins, and the Employment Rights Bill, enacted in April, brings complexity to payroll on top of higher costs of employing. — Rupert Lee-Browne, Forbes.com, 2 July 2026 Similarly, John Portman’s Entelechy II in Georgia and Ray Kappe’s home in Los Angeles deftly manipulate space and perspective, employing bold geometries and gravity-defying cantilevers to connect airy interiors to the landscape. — Mark David, Robb Report, 18 June 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for employing
  1. hiring
  2. using
  3. recruiting
  4. utilizing
  5. applying
  6. exploiting
Verb
  • Mizuho Americas analyst Dan Dolev told the Journal that the majority of these cuts probably trace to a post-pandemic hiring correction rather than AI itself.
    — Cindy Rodriguez Constable, Forbes.com, 1 July 2026
  • An American brand can open a local Hong Kong dollar account, a Vietnamese dong account, or a Portuguese euro account without ever setting up a foreign legal entity, leasing an office or hiring a single local employee.
    — Arthur Zaczkiewicz, Footwear News, 30 June 2026
Definition of hiring
Verb
  • In court documents, O’Hara alleged the defendants violated his First and Fourth Amendment rights, accusing them of unlawfully restricting free speech and initiating an unlawful seizure while using excessive force.
    — Bonny Chu, FOXNews.com, 2 July 2026
  • This article was created by content specialists using various tools, including AI.
    — Ryan Brennan, Miami Herald, 2 July 2026
Definition of using
Verb
  • Now, the Twins run baseball operations and Masubuchi has retired from recruiting.
    — Anya Armentrout, Twin Cities, 4 July 2026
  • The group plans on recruiting 50,000 volunteers and is actively fundraising to pass the measure.
    — Ben Paviour July 2, Sacbee.com, 2 July 2026
Definition of recruiting
Verb
  • The next day, a team from Chile, utilizing radar and sonar sound-detection equipment, confirmed the presence of Gil, still alive, in the sub-basement.
    — Mery Mogollón, Los Angeles Times, 5 July 2026
  • The corporate leadership stated that utilizing additive manufacturing allows the organization to reduce the standard timelines required to bring new power generation designs to the commercial marketplace.
    — Aman Tripathi, Interesting Engineering, 3 July 2026
Definition of utilizing
Verb
  • Normally, credit bureaus tally any credit checks within a 45-day period as one credit check, and your credit score shouldn't go down more than several points when applying to multiple lenders.
    — Kelsey Neubauer, CNBC, 2 July 2026
  • Madonna divorced from Guy Ritchie in 2008, before applying to adopt Mercy, and her adoption application was initially rejected by the courts.
    — Bailey Bujnosek, InStyle, 2 July 2026
Definition of applying
Verb
  • But the recent action on Anthropic, as well as asking OpenAI to limit its own newest model, comes after experts have fretted for months that Mythos could pose a security risk by giving hackers and other bad actors access to AI capable of finding and exploiting vulnerabilities exceptionally quickly.
    — Hadas Gold, CNN Money, 27 June 2026
  • The 2018 games in Russia similarly came under fire for accusations of bribery and exploiting workers.
    — Patrick Ryan, USA Today, 26 June 2026
Definition of exploiting

Browse Nearby Words

employers
employing
employment
See all Nearby Words

Cite this Entry

“Employing.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/employing. Accessed 8 Jul. 2026.

Copy Citation

More from Merriam-Webster on employing

Nglish: Translation of employing for Spanish Speakers

Last Updated: - Updated example sentences
Love words? Need even more definitions?

Subscribe to America's largest dictionary and get thousands more definitions and advanced search—ad free!

More from Merriam-Webster

Word of the Day

Listen to the pronunciation of gambol

See Definitions and Examples »

Popular in Grammar & Usage

See More

Is that lie 'bald-faced' or 'bold-faced'?

'A' or 'an'? What about before 'h'? An Indefinite Article Guide

Why is '-ed' sometimes pronounced at the end of a word?

Commonly Misspelled Words

How to Use Em Dashes (—), En Dashes (–) , and Hyphens (-)
See More

Popular in Wordplay

See More

14 Phobias You Probably Haven't Heard Of

The Longest Long Words List

One-Word Oxymorons: Bittersweet, Spendthrift, and More

Ten Words Ending with a Silent ‘T’

12 Lovely and Unusual Words for the Natural World
See More

Popular

See More

Is that lie 'bald-faced' or 'bold-faced'?

14 Phobias You Probably Haven't Heard Of

The Longest Long Words List
See More

Games & Quizzes

See All
Play Quordle: Guess all four words in a limited number of tries. Each of your guesses must be a real 5-letter word.
Quordle Can you solve 4 words at once?
Play Blossom: Solve today's spelling word game by finding as many words as you can using just 7 letters. Longer words score more points.
Blossom Pick the best words!
Play Missing Letter: a crossword with a twist. Each of the 25 puzzle words start with a different letter of the alphabet. Which letter is missing?
The Missing Letter A daily crossword with a twist
hangman letters and game
Hangman Lightning Round Figure out which word fits in the blanks.
See All