Employed

working hired jobholding retained

busy working active engaged occupied laboring hired gainfully employed on-duty operating placed selected commissioned holding down a job not out of work on the payroll hard at it on-the-job in someone's employ in someone's pay not on the unemployed rolls in-harness on the grind plugging in collar not on the relief rolls

hired engaged used applied utilized operated implemented practiced exercised involved supplied retained occupied serviced manipulated exploited procured bestowed

hired engaged contracted retained