employee

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Borrowed from Middle French employé. Equivalent to employ +‎ -ee.

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  • IPA(key): /ɛmplɔɪˈiː/, /ˌɛmˈplɔɪiː/, /(ˌ)ɪm-/
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  • Hyphenation: em‧ploy‧ee
  • Rhymes: -iː

Noun[edit]

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employee (plural employees)

  1. An individual who provides labor to a company or another person.
    Synonym: member of staff
    Hypernym: worker
    Holonyms: business, company
    One way to encourage your employees to work harder is by giving them incentives.
    • 1905, Baroness Emmuska Orczy, chapter 2, in The Hocussing of Cigarette[1]:
      No one, however, would have anything to do with him, as Mr. Keeson's orders in those respects were very strict ; he had often threatened any one of his employés with instant dismissal if he found him in company with one of these touts.

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