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employee

  • noun
  • em·ploy·ee
  • /ˌɛm.plɔɪˈiː/

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

Related words

  • antiemployee
  • coemployee
  • nonemployee
  • unemployee
  • business-to-employee
  • employee benefit
  • ghost employee
  • employee handbook
  • employeeless

Example sentences

  • “She works on employee retention strategies.”

    Tatoeba · Igider · CC0

Word history

From French "employé".

Where this comes from

This definition is adapted from “employee” on Wiktionary, by its contributors; example sentences are from Tatoeba, credited to their authors above, published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.