Employs

Examples

• Their labour, it is said, replaces only the stock which employs them, together with its ordinary profits. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• The mimeograph employs a pointed stylus, used as in writing with a lead-pencil, which is moved over a kind of tough prepared paper placed on a finely grooved steel plate. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• The industry employs many thousands of people in the manufacture of these instruments and records which afford entertainment, instruction and amusement to the entire world. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• The growing of wool is not the chief purpose for which the sheep farmer employs his industry and stock. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• A smaller proportion of it will, therefore, be sufficient to replace, with the ordinary profit, the stock which employs that labour. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• The labour of menial servants does not continue the existence of the fund which maintains and employs them. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• The retailer himself is the only productive labourer whom it immediately employs. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• The means he employs of doing so are at present kept secret, but he has shown its practicability by copying, on wood engravings, Mr. George Cruikshank's series of The Bottle. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
• The African project at present employs my whole time. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• Compliance, by rendering our strength useless, makes us insensible of it: but opposition awakens and employs it. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
• He observed that he employs nearly ten thousand of them now. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• In consequence of which she employs it--I should say upon every individual thing she can lay hold of, whether it concerns her or not--especially not. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• If he uses it as a capital, he employs it in the maintenance of productive labourers, who reproduce the value, with a profit. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• Many subsequent improvements have been made, one type of which employs a succession of rolls which act in pairs on the grain one after the other and reduce it by successive gradations. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• The farmer attempts to make neither the one nor the other, but employs those different artificers. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• Instead of a wax cylinder this machine employs a flat disc on which the record is formed as a volute spiral groove, gradually drawing toward the center. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• The shoemaker does not attempt to make his own clothes, but employs a tailor. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• He must in most cases share it with the owner of the stock which employs him. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• Socrates, in order to test this statement, employs once more the favourite analogy of the arts. Plato. The Republic.
• This loom, as usual, employs a single shuttle, but as the weft becomes exhausted another bobbin is automatically supplied to the shuttle without stopping the operation of the machine. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• He employs two different mixtures, one a feebly explosive mixture, and the other a strongly explosive mixture, used to operate on the piston and thus prolong the explosions. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• Thinking is the method of intelligent learning, of learning that employs and rewards mind. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• The child's father is employed by the house that employs me; that's how I came to know it, Charley. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• This employs two important elements. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• But a great part of it is always, either annually, or in a much shorter period, distributed among the different workmen whom he employs. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• Whatever part of his stock a man employs as a capital, he always expects it to be replaced to him with a profit. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• The top of the tree; employs a power of hands; has the very best society in the profession. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.

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