Employ
Employ verb - To provide with a paying job.
Usage example: a new factory that will employ 500 people
Keep
Keep verb - To mark with an appropriate practice, rite, or ceremony.
Common collocations
Both words in one sentence
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When confronted by the enemies of Man, they employ both of these, and if that doesn't work, they just keep throwing bigger guns and more men at it until it breaks.
Source: When All You Have Is a Hammer - Baron Flynt has accountants whose sole job is to keep track of the accountants who keep track of the bandits in his employ.
Source: Fanfic / No Gods, Only Guns -
The Coalition does employ some Dead Boys to patrol trouble areas to keep an eye on things, but these "peacekeepers" are completely biased towards humans, and mostly corrupt as well.
Source: Tabletop Game / Rifts
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