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employee

Rarely ·Dz·,

[em-ploi-ee, em-ploi-ee]

noun

  1. a person working for another person or a business firm for pay.



employee

/ ˌɛmplɔɪˈiː, ɛmˈplɔɪiː /

noun

  1. Also called (esp formerly): 𳾱Dzé.a person who is hired to work for another or for a business, firm, etc, in return for payment

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Other 51Թ Forms

  • preemployee noun
  • proemployee adjective
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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of employee1

First recorded in 1825–35; from French 𳾱Dzé “employed,” past participle of employer to employ; -ee
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Example Sentences

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Some of the people who have the best, best, best health insurance in the world are union employees.

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The next week, he's announcing that farmers and hotel owners don't like to see their long-term undocumented employees being deported and instructs ICE to stop their efforts in those sectors.

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What’s more, approximately 1,400 workers known as “red card” employees were also among those who left or were fired this year.

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“They’re more likely to be long established employees, parents, parts of faith institutions.”

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“It’s not even a hypothetical,” said one senior FDA employee familiar with the exemptions, who, like others, spoke on the condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak publicly.

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What doesemployee mean?

An employee is someone who gets paid to work for a person or company.Workers don’t need to work full time to be considered employees—they simply need to be paid to work by an employer (the person or business that pays them). The term employee is sometimes used to distinguish contract workers from full employees (who often earn additional benefits), but in this example, both types of workers are considered employees in the general sense.Example: My company has more than 500 employees.

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