Employ
Employ noun - The state of being provided with a paying job.
Usefulness and employ are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Usefulness" instead a noun "Employ".
Usefulness
Usefulness noun - The capacity for being useful for some purpose.
Employ and usefulness are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Employ" instead a noun "Usefulness".
Both words in one sentence
- You Have Outlived Your Usefulness: What Maurice intends to do to the child rapists in his employ once the global conspiracy no longer needs them.
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You Have Outlived Your Usefulness: Turns out to everyone's surprise, he was in league with Paul Heyman, CM Punk, and The Shield after all... up until Paul Heyman decided this and released him from his employ - complete with a Shield beatdown.
Source: Wrestling / Brad Maddox -
You Have Outlived Your Usefulness: In "Paint It Black" after Joan tried her best, under her condition of being kidnapped and working in a backroom, to save a man in her kidnapper's employ (and the man's cousin no less).
Source: Series / Elementary
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