Employ
Employ verb - To provide with a paying job.
Like
Like verb - To wish to have.
Common collocations
Both words in one sentence
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To Taiga's disappointment, ninjas from where she's from don't employ kunoichi, making her just a normal fighter instead of allowing him to have the sexy fun times he would like.
Source: Ninja - The Orks generally avert this, being content with a brute-force strategy, but the Blood Axez clan will employ concepts like special forces, camouflage, and retreating if things go bad.
Source: Combat Pragmatist / Other -
The Protoss of Starcraft and StarCraft II employ some sort of wormhole-like "warp gate" to summon units to the battlefield instead of producing them.
Source: Our Wormholes Are Different
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