employ

/ɪmˈplɔɪ/

意味: 雇う、使用する

例文: June employed a muffin alarm.
　　  ジューンがマフィン警報を導入。

言葉のよくある組み合わせ: employ staff (スタッフを雇う), employ a strategy (戦略を用いる), employ resources (資源を活用する)

定義: 人を雇うことや、何かを使うことを指します。会社が人を雇うときや、特定の方法や道具を使うときに使われます。

employは約100,000語に1回程度の頻出度です。

口語性、形式性、抽象度、感情度

水平グラフ: 会話での使われやすさ、フォーマル度、抽象度（具体・概念）、感情度を示します。数値が高いほど、その特徴が強いことを表します。

感情分析

レーダーチャート: 怒り、期待、嫌悪、恐れ、喜び、悲しみ、驚き、信頼、ポジティブ、ネガティブの強さを示します。

　年代別単語頻度グラフ

このグラフは、1900年からの単語出現頻度の推移を示しています。値は ×10⁻⁸ スケールで表示されています。

　

Definitions(定義)

Noun: the state of being employed or having a job
Verb: put into service; make work or employ for a particular purpose or for its inherent or natural purpose
Verb: engage or hire for work

Parts of Speech(品詞)

Noun, Verb

Examples(例文)

感情分析に使用された例文：

We employ various strategies to improve our team’s efficiency.(私たちはチームの効率を向上させるために様々な戦略を採用しています。)
I can’t believe they employ clowns at the birthday party!(誕生日パーティーにピエロを雇っているなんて信じられない！)
The organization seeks to employ innovative solutions for environmental challenges.(その組織は環境問題に対して革新的な解決策を採用しようとしています。)

 

Word Netから抽出した例文：

Noun: they are looking for employment
Noun: he was in the employ of the city
Verb: use your head!
Verb: we only use Spanish at home
Verb: I can’t use this tool
Verb: Apply a magnetic field here
Verb: This thinking was applied to many projects
Verb: How do you utilize this tool?
Verb: I apply this rule to get good results
Verb: use the plastic bags to store the food
Verb: He doesn’t know how to use a computer
Verb: They hired two new secretaries in the department
Verb: How many people has she employed?

Synonyms/Antonyms(類語/反意語)

Synonyms(類語): apply, employ, employment, engage, hire, use, utilise, utilize

Antonyms(反意語): fire, unemployment

Hypernyms/Hyponyms(上位語/下位語)

Hypernyms (General categories)(上位語): state

Coordinate Terms(同じ上位語をもつもの): action, being, cleavage, condition, conditionality, conflict, damnation, dead letter, death, degree, dependence, disorder, dystopia, employment, end, enlargement, feeling, flux, freedom, grace, ground state, heterozygosity, homozygosity, hostility, illumination, immaturity, imminence, imperfection, inaction, integrity, isomerism, kalemia, maturity, medium, merchantability, motion, motionlessness, nationhood, neotony, nonbeing, obligation, office, omnipotence, omniscience, order, ornamentation, ownership, paternity, perfection, plurality, polyvalence, readiness, receivership, relationship, representation, revocation, separation, situation, skillfulness, status, temporary state, tribalism, turgor, unemployment, union, utilization, utopia, wild

Hyponyms (Specific examples)(下位語): address, avail, cannibalize, engage, enjoy, exert, exploit, fall back, featherbed, fill, give, implement, misapply, overuse, play, ply, pull out all the stops, put, rat, recycle, share, ship, sign, strain, subcontract, take, waste, work

Derivationally Related Words(派生語)

Derivationally Related Words: application, applicative, applicatory, employ, employee, employer, employment, engagement, hirer, usable, usage, use, useable, user, utilisation, utility, utilizable, utilization, utilizer

Categories(カテゴリー)

Domain Categories: general

Usage Category: common

Usage Context: conversation, descriptive

Grammatical Notes:
intransitive verb, transitive verb

Prefixes/Suffixes(接頭辞/接尾辞)

Prefixes(接頭辞): em

Suffixes(接尾辞): y

Exam Level

大学受験レベル

英検準2級

Media Appearance(メディア登場例)

Books(洋書): Atomic Habits

Movies(映画):

Other Information(その他)

Is Abstract?(抽象的な言葉?) Yes

Is Emotion Word?(感情的な言葉?) Yes

Emotion Categories: trust