employee

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• employe (dated)

From employ +‎ -ee.^[1][2] First attested in the early 19th century, possibly modeled after French employé.^[1][3]

• IPA^(key): /ˌɛmplɔɪˈiː/, /ˌɛmˈplɔɪiː/, /ɪm-/

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• Hyphenation: em‧ploy‧ee
• Rhymes: -iː

employee (plural employees)

1. 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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