1. employed
Six people applied for the job, but none of them were employed.
The ladies are looking after the children whose parents are employed in factories during the daytime.
The law now requires women to be employed on equal terms with men.
While employed at the bank, he taught economics at college.
She employed a private detective to keep a watch on her husband.
I'm employed.
As he was an honest man, I employed him.
I myself have, before becoming employed by this company, twice spoken bluntly to the people at the top.
The walking stick serves the purpose of an advertisement that the bearer's hands are employed otherwise than in useful effort, and it therefore has utility as an evidence of leisure.
Roger Ascham one day paying a visit to the amiable but unfortunate Lady Jane Grey found her employed in reading Plato while the rest of the family were engaged in a hunting party in the park.
An effective writer is one who knows what sort of words should be employed in any specific context.
At an Indian wedding at the Phillipine islands the bride retired from the company in order to go down to the river to wash her feet. As she was thus employed an alligator seized her.
Several young engineers were employed and were devoted to developing a new computer.
For the past three years he has been employed as a firefighter.
True, even a lowly obligator like the ones Tresting employed could serve as such witness.