employ vs employee

employ

noun
  • The state of being an employee; employment. 

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

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

  • To make busy. 

employee

noun
  • An individual who provides labor to a company or another person. 

  • One way to encourage your employees to work harder is by giving them incentives. 

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