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reëmploy

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See also: reemploy and re-employ

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reëmploy (third-person singular simple present reëmploys, present participle reëmploying, simple past and past participle reëmployed)

  1. Rare spelling of reemploy.
    • 1889 August 29, Documents of the Assembly of the State of New York[1], volume 2, numbers 8–11, New York: James B. Lyon, published 1890, page 284:
      This committee had several interviews with Mr. Turner, and they finally requested him to reëmploy the men who had struck, pending a settlement of the difficulty by arbitration.
    • 1916, Julius Cohen, chapter XII, in Law and Order in Industry: Five Years’ Experience[2], New York: MacMillan Company, page 143:
      He claimed the right to discharge such of his employees as he chose at the end of the season and to reëmploy such of them as he should think proper, or to fail to reëmploy such as he might not wish to reëmploy.
    • 1922, William MacDonald, chapter IV, in Reconstruction in France[3], New York: MacMillan Company, page 68:
      A compromise was accordingly proposed under which a premium was to be placed upon reëmployment, the sinistré being left free to reëmploy or not as he chose.

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