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employee

[ em-ploi-ee, em-ploi-ee ]

noun

  1. a person working for another person or a business firm for pay.


employee

/ ˌɛmplɔɪˈiː; ɛmˈplɔɪiː /

noun

  1. a person who is hired to work for another or for a business, firm, etc, in return for payment Also called (esp formerly)employé


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Other Words From

  • pre·em·ploy·ee noun
  • pro·em·ploy·ee adjective

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Word History and Origins

Origin of employee1

First recorded in 1825–35; from French employé “employed,” past participle of employer to employ; -ee

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Example Sentences

Imagine waking up to find a guy who looks like a tech startup employee eating your charred crispy leg.

In some cases, public employee unions even pushed private sector unions to endorse Republicans.

Public employee unions are a little-acknowledged driver of this conflict.

In January 2014, a lifelong District of Columbia parks employee, Medric Mills, collapsed while walking with his grown daughter.

It said: “Tonie Tobias, Information Technology, President of GLEN, Gay and Lesbian Employee Network.”

A building employee stated earlier today that Girra left the premises less than five minutes before the killing.

A director of a bank is not an employee within the meaning of the acts under consideration.

The fact that a workman furnishes tools and materials, or undertakes to do a specified job will not prevent his being an employee.

An apprentice who is qualifying himself to operate an elevator is an employee within the Minnesota Act.

Thus, one who is employed as a workman in a sawmill on such days as it was in operation for four months was not a casual employee.

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