Meanings of employed mainly in English

His vessels were employed mainly in dashing out on insufficiently-convoyed merchantmen.

The coal in the Clyde basin is employed mainly in the manufacture of railway iron, steamship material, and rolling stock.

This diversion, which she employed mainly to annoy her neighbors, was, in truth, the very worst thing she could have done.

Disgruntled oil workers, who are employed mainly by private companies, have called for equal wages and pensions to those employed by the government.