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See also: employée
English
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]From employ + -ee.[1][2] First attested in the early 19th century, possibly modeled after French employé.[1][3]
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]employee (plural employees)
- A person who provides labor to a company or another person.
- Synonyms: member of staff; associate (sometimes euphemistically synonymous)
- Hypernym: worker
- Holonyms: business, company
- Coordinate terms: employer; (in some contexts hyponymous) boss, manager
- One way to encourage your employees to work harder is by giving them incentives.
- 1904–1905, Baroness Orczy [i.e., Emma Orczy], “The Hocussing of Cigarette”, in The Case of Miss Elliott, London: T[homas] Fisher Unwin, published 1905, →OCLC; republished as popular edition, London: Greening & Co., 1909, OCLC 11192831, quoted in The Case of Miss Elliott (ebook no. 2000141h.html), Australia: Project Gutenberg of Australia, February 2020:
- 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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[edit]Translations
[edit]person who provides labor to a company or another person
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See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ↑ 1.0 1.1 “employee”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.
- ^ Douglas Harper (2001–2024) “employee”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.
- ^ “employee, n.1”, in OED Online , Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.
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