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take on in English:

1. employ employ


They employ temporary workers.
If he is proficient in English, I'll employ him.
They employ foreigners because Japanese workers are in short supply.
His age didn't enter into our decision not to employ him.
It has become common practise to employ foreigners working abroad from Asian countries as maids.
Japanese education is sometimes said to employ the drill and kill method.
Do you have a John Harrison in your employ?
However, like America, Japan is predominantly a middle-class, middle-income country, and so wives do not employ maids, but attend to everything themselves.
To employ means to use somebody's labour or services in exchange for money.
He's employed in a bank
Over 16.5 million people are employed in the food industry.
In Poland you can't be employed, if you are under 18.
We can also change the type of physical isolation we employ for them.
Don't employ any complicated vocabulary while talking to him.
The temporary workers that we managed to employ left work right away.

English word "take on"(employ) occurs in sets:

business phrasal verbs PART 1
synonimy rozne
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2. hire hire


I'll hire whoever he recommends.
He will hire someone who speaks English.
If he's fluent in English, I'll hire him.
With your experience, any company would hire you right away.
Many people hire accountants to help them with their tax returns.
When we started out, our band could only find small clubs in small cities that would hire us.
When we started out in 2008, we wrote down a list of people that we wanted to hire, then went out and hired them.
When I got out of prison, I couldn't find a job anywhere near my home since no one would hire an ex-con.
Why don't we fire everyone and hire a group of new people?
I would like to hire a car.
Hire a minivan by the hour.
As the baby was born, the Tanakas had to hire a part-timer.
To hire a good lawyer? Al-Sayib asked.
City firms vied with each other to hire the brightest young staff.
Is it a good idea to hire former hackers to work as security professionals?

English word "take on"(hire) occurs in sets:

business partner b2+ (units 1&2)
Unit 8 Take, phrasal verbs
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