as in to employ
to provide with a paying job
the sports shoe company recently signed up the nation's top female college basketball player to plug its products
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The company employs around 10,000 mostly office workers in its hometown.—
Alexander Coolidge,
The Enquirer,
29 July 2025 -
Fed employees are employed at regional banks across the country, with about 3,000 based in Washington, DC.—
Bryan Mena,
CNN Money,
28 July 2025
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Laptop farm When her clients got hired, Chapman would receive their corporate laptops in the mail.—
Nate Anderson,
ArsTechnica,
25 July 2025
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The complaints about contractors hired to do work around people’s homes are legion.—
LEW SICHELMAN,
Miami Herald,
25 July 2025
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Travers impresses New signing Mark Travers has been recruited with a simple brief: to compete with long-term No 1 Pickford.—
Patrick Boyland,
New York Times,
21 July 2025
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The Amateur Athletic Union, or AAU for short, originally aimed to help youth in getting recruited to colleges or receiving scholarships.—
Sami Khan,
Mercury News,
20 July 2025
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“Sign (up or on).” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/sign%20%28up%20or%20on%29. Accessed 3 Aug. 2025.
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