employing
雇用する
解説 Definition
employing は employ（雇用する）の現在分詞・動名詞です。人を仕事に雇うことを表し、会社や組織が従業員を採用して働かせる場面で使います。
Employing is the -ing form of employ and, in this sense, means hiring people or keeping them in paid work. It can describe an ongoing action or function as a gerund naming the practice of providing employment.
覚え方のコツ Memory Tip
原形 employ に -ing をそのまま加えた現在分詞・動名詞で、employ → employing と綴ります。employ workers「労働者を雇う」、begin employing engineers「技術者を雇い始める」が典型です。hire が採用する瞬間に寄りやすいのに対し、employ は雇用して仕事に従事させる関係にも焦点があります。
Take the base verb employ and add -ing directly: employ becomes employing. No letter is removed or doubled. Connect it with patterns such as employing local people and employing more engineers. In this sense, the word means bringing people into paid work or maintaining them as workers. Hire often highlights the act of taking someone on, while employ can also emphasize the continuing work relationship. The historical image is of involving or engaging someone in an activity, which helps explain why a company that employs people places them within its organized work.
例文
The store is employing two new workers.
その店は新しい従業員を2人雇っています。
Employing local people can help the town.
地元の人を雇用することは町の助けになります。
The company began employing more engineers this year.
その会社は今年、より多くの技術者を雇い始めました。
employing の類義語・関連語
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employing の語源・成り立ち Etymology
employing は employ に -ing が付いた形です。employ は古フランス語 employer を経てラテン語 implicare「巻き込む・従事させる」にさかのぼり、im-「中へ」+ plicare「折る」から成ります。「仕事に組み入れる」感覚が、雇うの意味へつながります。関連語は imply, implicate です。
Employing consists of employ plus the participial ending -ing. Employ entered English through Old French employer and is traced to Latin implicare, “to involve, entangle, or engage,” formed from an inward element and plicare, “to fold.” The notion of involving someone in an activity developed into engaging that person for work and then providing paid work. Imply and implicate belong to the same broader Latin word family.
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