employed

In a job; working.

Adjective

  1. In a job; working.
    • You're just looking for a handout like every other—are you employed, Mr. Lebowski? - 1998, Ethan Coen, Joel Coen, The Big Lebowski, spoken by The Big Lebowski (David Huddleston):
  2. Used; in use.
    • Studies on LLS in recent decades have identified a large number of strategies which are employed by English as a foreign/second language (EFL/ESL) learners and several strategy categorisation patterns have also been...

Forms

more employed most employed

Derived

malemployed nonemployed self-employed subemployed underemployed unemployed

Verb

  1. simple past and past participle of employ