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employee

nouncommon in dialogue

  • //ˌɛm.plɔɪˈiː//
  • //ɪmˈplɔɪ.iː//

A person who provides labor to a company or another person.

noun

  1. 1

    A person who provides labor to a company or another person.

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

    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.

    The concepts of emotional intelligence (EI), self-worth, authenticity and employee meditation rooms might conjure up thoughts of new age healing centers. […] Now, Nielsen is sending all hotel employees through EI training to help them become more open and confident, understand their own limitations and fears, and to boost their self-worth and comfort in dealing with other people.

Etymology

From employ + -ee. First attested in the early 19th century, possibly modeled after French employé.

Forms

plural
employees
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Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).