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employé
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Employé
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em·ploy·ee
/
ɛmˈplɔɪ
i, ɛm
plɔɪˈi, ˌɛm
plɔɪˈi
/
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[
em-
ploi
-ee, em-ploi-
ee
, em-ploi-
ee
]
Show IPA
noun
a person working for another person or a business firm for pay.
Also,
em·ploy·e,
em·ploy·é.
Origin:
1825–35;
<
French
employé
employed, past participle of
employer
to
employ
; see
-ee
Related forms
pre·em·ploy·ee,
noun
pro·em·ploy·ee,
adjective
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employee
or
sometimes
(
US
)
employe
(ɛmˈplɔɪiː, ˌɛmplɔɪˈiː)
—
n
Also called (esp formerly):
employé
a person who is hired to work for another or for a business, firm, etc, in return for payment
employe
or
sometimes
(
US
)
employe
—
n
Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 10th Edition
2009 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins
Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009
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a stew of meat, vegetables, potatoes, etc.
a screen or mat covered with a dark material for shielding a camera lens from excess light or glare.
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a gadget; dingus; thingumbob.
a scrap or morsel of food left at a meal.
an arrangement of five objects, as trees, in a square or rectangle, one at each corner and one in the middle.
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Etymonline
Word Origin & History
employee
"person employed," 1850, mainly in U.S. use, from
employ
+
-ee
.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2010 Douglas Harper
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Example sentences
The employe claimed he was out of his work area by mistake because of
medications he was taking.
The employe was hired as a law clerk for the employer, a private attorney.
The employe worked for the employer, a catering service, for approximately two
months as a chef.
If the supervising employe denies placement, the academic coordinator will
contact other placement choices.
The employe denied that he was smoking in the plant on the date in question.
The employe worked for about two years as a machine operator for the employer, a manufacturer of tools.
The employe who will be responsible for supervision decides to accept or deny placement.
The employe's attorney wrote back that the employe had not quit but had not yet been released for work by his physician.
The employe worked for the employer, an orchard, for about a year and a half.
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