emplear

== Ladino == === Verb === emplear to use to go shopping == Spanish == === Etymology === 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. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /empleˈaɾ/ [ẽm.pleˈaɾ] Rhymes: -aɾ Syllabification: em‧ple‧ar === Verb === emplear (first-person singular present empleo, first-person singular preterite empleé, past participle empleado) (transitive) to hire, to employ (to give someone a job) (transitive) to use (employ, apply) Synonyms: usar, utilizar (transitive) to use (consume, spend) Synonyms: ocupar, consumir ==== Conjugation ==== ==== Derived terms ==== === References === === Further reading === “emplear”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025