Employed Synonyms and Antonyms

Having a job
(Adjective)
Synonyms:
  1. hired
  2. jobholding
  3. retained
  4. working
Involved in activity or work
(Adjective)
Synonyms:
  1. busy
  2. occupied
  3. engaged
  4. working
  5. laboring
  6. gainfully employed
  7. holding down a job
  8. not out of work
  9. not on the unemployed rolls
  10. not on the relief rolls
  11. in collar
  12. in someone's employ
  13. in someone's pay
  14. hard at it
  15. on-the-job
  16. hired
  17. operating
  18. selected
  19. active
  20. placed
  21. commissioned
  22. on-duty
  23. on the payroll
  24. in-harness
  25. on the grind
  26. plugging
Antonyms:
  1. unemployed
  2. out-of-work
  3. inactive
  4. unengaged
  5. jobless
  6. unoccupied
  7. idle
Give, take job for money
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. hired
  2. contracted
  3. retained
  4. engaged
Antonyms:
  1. fired
To make busy
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. occupied
  2. engaged
  3. busied

Words Related to Employed

Related words are words that are directly connected to each other through their meaning, even if they are not synonyms or antonyms. This connection may be general or specific, or the words may appear frequently together.

Employed Sentence Examples

  • He'd recently employed a deputy who was doing a top notch job.

  • He employed him no more.

  • Idle computer time employed to solve the world's problems.

  • The ancient historians all employed one and the same method to describe and seize the apparently elusive--the life of a people.

  • He also largely employed Jews and Ishmaelites,' the financial specialists of the day, whom he rewarded with lands and titles.

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