discard vs employ

discard

verb
  • To dismiss from employment, confidence, or favour; to discharge. 

  • To throw away, to reject. 

  • To make a discard; to throw out a card. 

noun
  • A temporary variable used to receive a value of no importance and unable to be read later. 

  • Anything discarded. 

  • A discarded playing card in a card game. 

employ

verb
  • To hire (somebody for work or a job). 

  • To use (somebody for a job, or something for a task). 

  • To make busy. 

noun
  • The state of being an employee; employment. 

How often have the words discard and employ occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )