employee

See also: employée

English

Alternative forms

• employe
• employé

Pronunciation

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• Rhymes: -iː

Etymology

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

Noun

employee (plural employees)

1. An individual who provides labor to a company or another person.
   • 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.

   One way to encourage your employees to work harder is by giving them incentives.

Related terms

• employment
• employer
• Slave

Translations

individual who provides labor to a company or another person

• Arabic: مُوَظَّف‏‎ m (muwaẓẓaf), مُوَظَّفَة‏‎ f (muwaẓẓafa)
• Armenian: աշխատող (hy) (ašxatoł)
• Bulgarian: служещ (bg) m (služešt)
• Catalan: empleat m
• Chechen: белахо (belaχo)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 僱員 (zh), 雇员 (zh) (gùyuán), 職員 (zh), 职员 (zh) (zhíyuán)

• Czech: zaměstnanec (cs) m
• Danish: ansat c
• Dutch: bediende (nl) m, f, werknemer (nl) m, medewerker (nl) m
• Finnish: työntekijä (fi)
• French: employé (fr) m, employée (fr) f
• Galician: empregado (gl) m, empregada f
• Georgian: მოსამსახურე (mosamsaxure), დასაქმებული (dasakmebuli), თანამშრომელი (tanamšromeli)
• German: Arbeitnehmer (de) m, Angestellter (de) m, Angestellte (de) f
• Greek: υπάλληλος (el) c (ypállilos)
• Hungarian: munkavállaló (hu), alkalmazott (hu), dolgozó (hu)
• Ido: employato (io)
• Indonesian: pegawai (id), pekerja (id), karyawan (id) m, karyawati (id) f
• Irish: fostaí m
• Italian: dipendente (it)
• Japanese: 従業員 (ja) (じゅうぎょういん, jūgyōin), 雇員 (こいん, koin), 勤務員 (ja) (きんむいん, kinmuin), 使用人 (しようにん, shiyōin)
• Korean: ^{(please verify)} 직원 (jigwon) (^{(please verify)} 職員)
• Kurdish: karker (ku) m, f

• Latin: conductus m
• Macedonian: вработен m (vráboten), работник m (rábotnik), службеник m (slúžbenik)
• Malay: pekerja
• Manx: failleydagh m, obbree m
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: arbeidstaker m, (employees) ansatte

  Nynorsk: arbeidstakar m

• Ottoman Turkish: چاليشان‏‎ (çalışan), موظف‏‎ (muwazzaf)
• Polish: pracownik (pl) m, pracownica (pl) f
• Portuguese: empregado (pt) m, empregada (pt) f
• Romanian: angajat (ro) m, angajată (ro) f
• Romansch: emploià m, emploiada f
• Russian: рабо́тник (ru) m (rabótnik), рабо́тница (ru) f (rabótnica), слу́жащий (ru) m (slúžaščij), слу́жащая (ru) f (slúžaščaja), сотру́дник (ru) m (sotrúdnik), сотру́дница (ru) f (sotrúdnica)
• Scottish Gaelic: cosnaiche m, neach-obrach m
• Serbo-Croatian: запосленик m (zaposlenik), послопримац m (posloprimac), radnik (sh) m, radnica (sh) f
• Spanish: empleado (es) m, empleada (es) f
• Swahili: mwajiriwa (sw)
• Swedish: anställd (sv) c, arbetstagare (sv) c
• Tagalog: kawani
• Turkish: çalışan (tr), personel (tr)
• Vietnamese: nhân viên (vi)
• Volapük: (male or female) vobükäb, (male) hivobükäb
• Walloon: eployî (wa) m

See also

• payroll
• taxes
• work