To make busy.
To hire (somebody for work or a job).
To use (somebody for a job, or something for a task).
The state of being an employee; employment.
To put into, or to continue in, operation or activity; to work.
To deal in stocks or any commodity with a view to speculative profits.
To perform some manual act upon a human body in a methodical manner, and usually with instruments, with a view to restore soundness or health, as in amputation, lithotomy, etc.
To act or produce effect on the mind; to exert moral power or influence.
To perform a work or labour; to exert power or strength, physical or mechanical; to act.
To produce, as an effect; to cause.
To produce an appropriate physical effect; to issue in the result designed by nature; especially (medicine) to take appropriate effect on the human system.