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  • 11employ — [[t]ɪmplɔ͟ɪ[/t]] ♦♦♦ employs, employing, employed 1) VERB If a person or company employs you, they pay you to work for them. [V n] The company employs 18 staff... [be V ed in/as n] More than 3,000 local workers are employed in the tourism… …

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  • 12The Financier — Infobox Book name = The Financier image caption = author = Theodore Dreiser illustrator = cover artist = country = United States language = English series = A Trilogy of Desire genre = Novel publisher = release date = 1912 media type = Print… …

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  • 13employ — v. & n. v.tr. 1 use the services of (a person) in return for payment; keep (a person) in one s service. 2 (often foll. by for, in, on) use (a thing, time, energy, etc.) esp. to good effect. 3 (often foll. by in) keep (a person) occupied. n. the… …

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  • 14employ — verb 1》 give work to (someone) and pay them for it.     ↘keep (someone) occupied. 2》 make use of. noun the state of being employed; employment: he was in the employ of a wine merchant. Derivatives employability noun employable adjective Origin ME …

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  • 18The Rules of Attraction — Infobox Book | name = The Rules of Attraction author = Bret Easton Ellis language = English publisher = Simon Schuster pub date = September 1987 media type = Print (Hardcover and Paperback) pages = 283 pp hardcover, 288 pp paperback isbn = ISBN… …

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  • 20The Nature of Truth — infobox Book | name = The Nature of Truth orig title = translator = author = Sergio Troncoso cover artist = country = United States language = English series = genre = Philosophical novel publisher = Northwestern University Press release date =… …

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