Employ vs. Employee — What's the Difference?

Give work to (someone) and pay them for it

A person who works for another in return for financial or other compensation.

Make use of

An individual who provides labor to a company or another person.

The state of being employed for wages or a salary

One employed by another.

To provide work to (someone) for pay

A worker who is hired to perform a job

To engage the attention or activity of; occupy

To put (something) to use or service

To devote (time, for example) to an activity or purpose

The state of being employed

(Archaic) An occupation.

The state of being an employee; employment.

(obsolete) The act of employing someone or making use of something; employment.

(obsolete) Occupation.

To hire (somebody for work or a job).

To use (somebody for a job, or something for a task).

To make busy.

To inclose; to infold.

To use; to have in service; to cause to be engaged in doing something; - often followed by in, about, on, or upon, and sometimes by to; as: (a) To make use of, as an instrument, a means, a material, etc., for a specific purpose; to apply; as, to employ the pen in writing, bricks in building, words and phrases in speaking; to employ the mind; to employ one's energies.

To occupy; as, to employ time in study.

That which engages or occupies a person; fixed or regular service or business; employment.

The state of being employed or having a job;

Put into service; make work or employ (something) for a particular purpose or for its inherent or natural purpose;

Engage or hire for work;