Meanings
verbpreemploy (third-person singular simple present preemploys, present participle preemploying, simple past and past participle preemployed)
present singular third person preemploys · participle present preemploying · participle past preemployed · past preemployed
- transitiveTo employ beforehand.
That false villain Whom I employed was preemployed by him.
c. 1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Winters Tale”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene i]
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