She employed him as a programmer.
CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY
雇用
to employ; to hire
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DEFINITIONS & USAGE
Meaning and common use
01
to employ; to hire
REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES
How 雇用 actually appears in real sentences.
These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 雇用 appears in 6 of the 89,190 sentences we searched.
That company hires people without regard to race, religion, or nationality.
"To hire a good lawyer?" Al-Sayib asked.
COMMON COLLOCATIONS
Words that keep company with 雇用.
Counted from the same corpus: the word that most often comes directly before, and directly after, 雇用.
Directly before
- 工厂雇用1
- 他雇用1
- 要雇用1
- 国籍雇用1
- 她雇用1
Directly after
- 雇用一个2
- 雇用童工1
- 雇用了1
- 雇用人1
- 雇用他作1
ABOUT THIS ENTRY
Where this entry comes from
The HSK level, part of speech, and pronunciation come from the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus. The English definitions come from CC-CEDICT. Corpus sentences, collocations, and the frequency figure come from the Tatoeba Chinese sentence export and are counted rather than written, so nothing on this page is invented. Usage notes and the hand-written examples that appear higher up exist only for a handful of entries.
Definitions from CC-CEDICT, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Vocabulary levels and parts of speech from the HSK 3.1 syllabus. This compiled dictionary is shared under the same CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
COMMON QUESTIONS
About 雇用
What does 雇用 mean in Chinese?
雇用 (gùyòng) means to employ; to hire.
How do you pronounce 雇用?
雇用 is pronounced gùyòng.
Is 雇用 an HSK word?
雇用 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.
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