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empregar.

to employ (to give someone a job)

8 characters3 syllables approx.Galego language

Meaning & usage

verb/empɾeˈɡaɾ/[em.pɾeˈɣ̞ɑɾ]/empɾeˈɡaɾ/standard[em.pɾeˈɣ̞ɑɾ]standard
  1. to employ (to give someone a job)

  2. to employ; to make use of (to put into use)

  3. to put to good use

    archaic
Where this word comes from

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₁én Proto-Italic *en Proto-Italic *en- Latin in- Proto-Indo-European *pel- Proto-Indo-European *pleḱ-der. Latin plicō Latin implicāreslbor. Old Galician-Portuguese empregar Galician empregar Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese empregar, a semi-learned borrowing from Latin implicāre (“to entangle”). Doublet of implicar.

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