emplear

Significat

1. (transitive) to hire, to employ (to give someone a job)
2. (transitive) to use (employ, apply)
3. (transitive) to use (consume, spend)

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em‧ple‧ar

Pronunciat com a (IPA)

/empleˈaɾ/

Etimologia

Borrowed from Old French empleiier, variant of emploiier (compare modern French employer), from Latin implicāre. Doublet of implicar, borrowed directly from Latin. Cf. also the Old Spanish form emplegar, which may have been inherited; compare the surviving Asturian emplegar.