If your time is employed in doing something, you are using the time you have to do that thing. Your time could be usefully employed in attending to professional matters
the state of being employed or having a job; "they are looking for employment"; "he was in the employ of the city"
If a person or company employs you, they pay you to work for them. The company employs 18 staff More than 3,000 local workers are employed in the tourism industry The government counted 27,600,000 employed persons in West Germany
to engage an individual or a company to perform a job in exchange for compensation
If you are in the employ of someone or something, you work for them. Others hinted that he was in the employ of the KGB. in sb's employ working for someone
If you employ certain methods, materials, or expressions, you use them. The tactics the police are now to employ are definitely uncompromising. the approaches and methods employed in the study. = use
To have or keep at work; to give employment or occupation to; to intrust with some duty or behest; as, to employ a hundred workmen; to employ an envoy
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
put into service; make work or employ (something) for a particular purpose or for its inherent or natural purpose; "use your head!"; "we only use Spanish at home"; "I can't make use of this tool"; "Apply a magnetic field here"; "This thinking was applied to many projects"; "How do you utilize this tool?"; "I apply this rule to get good results"; "use the plastic bags to store the food"; "He doesn't know how to use a computer"