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What is the etymology of this word? Use your dictionary if necessary. employ
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What is the etymology of this word? Use your dictionary if necessary. employ

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Apparently it's from the 15th Century's Old French emploier, Latin implicāre to entangle, to engage, from plicāre to fold
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