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EMPLOY
Definition of EMPLOY
verb
To retain (someone) as an employee.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From late Middle English emploien, imploien, emplien (“to apply to a specific purpose”), from Anglo-Norman emploier, Old French emploiier (“to entangle, fabricate, to make use of”), ultimately from Latin implicāre (“to infold, entangle, involve, engage”), from in- (“in”) + plicāre (“to fold”). Doublet of imply and implicate.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
EMPLOY in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 4 boards so far.
It first turned up on Day 37, 26 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 96, 24 August 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 6 days.
First found by a player on Day 37, 26 June 2026.
Built from these letters
EMPLOY starts with E and ends with Y. Sorted, its letters read ELMOPY - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Words that start EMPLOY
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 37
Could you have found EMPLOY?
OUTLIER is a daily word game. One grid, the same grid for everybody, and the words nobody else spots are the ones that pay. This word was on Day 37 - and most players walked straight past it.
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