Webster's 1828 Dictionary
EMPLOYED
pp. Occupied; fixed or engaged; applied in business; used in agency.
American Oxford Thesaurus
employed
employed adjective up to forty percent of employed people are in part-time jobs: working, in work, in employment, holding down a job; earning, wage-earning, waged, breadwinning.
Oxford Thesaurus
employed
employed adjective employed married women tend to delay their childbearing: working, in work, in employment, with a job, holding down a job, with a career; professional, career; earning, waged, in gainful employment, earning one's living, breadwinning. ANTONYMS unemployed.