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em·ploy·ee

also em·ploy·e (ĕm-ploi′ē, ĭm-, ĕm′ploi-ē′)

A person who works for another in return for financial or other compensation.

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employee

(ɛmˈplɔɪiː; ˌɛmplɔɪˈiː) or

employe

(Industrial Relations & HR Terms) a person who is hired to work for another or for a business, firm, etc, in return for payment. Also called (esp formerly): employé

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em•ploy•ee

or em•ploy•e

(ɛmˈplɔɪ i, ɛm plɔɪˈi, ˌɛm plɔɪˈi)

n.

a person who has been hired to work for another.

[1825–35; < French employé employed, past participle of employer to employ; see -ee]

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Noun

employee - a worker who is hired to perform a job

worker - a person who works at a specific occupation; "he is a good worker"

barkeep, barkeeper, barman, bartender, mixologist - an employee who mixes and serves alcoholic drinks at a bar

clerk - an employee who performs clerical work (e.g., keeps records or accounts)

company man - an employee whose first loyalty is to the company rather than to fellow workers

copyist, scrivener, scribe - someone employed to make written copies of documents and manuscripts

copywriter - a person employed to write advertising or publicity copy

crewman - a member of a work crew

delivery boy, deliveryman, deliverer - someone employed to make deliveries

dining-room attendant, restaurant attendant - someone employed to provide service in a dining room

dispatcher - employee of a transportation company who controls the departures of vehicles according to weather conditions and in the interest of efficient service

dog catcher - an employee of a municipal pound who is hired to round up stray dogs and cats

floater - an employee who is reassigned from job to job as needed

floorwalker, shopwalker - an employee of a retail store who supervises sales personnel and helps with customer problems; "a floorwalker is called a shopwalker in Britain"

gardener - someone employed to work in a garden

gasman - someone employed by a gas company

gofer - an employee whose duties include running errands

hire - a newly hired employee; "the new hires need special training"

hired help - employee hired for domestic or farm work (often used in the singular to refer to several employees collectively)

hireling, pensionary - a person who works only for money

jobholder - an employee who holds a regular job

line worker - an employee who works on an assembly line

liveryman - a worker in a livery stable

office boy - a young man who is employed to do odd jobs in a business office

organization man - an employee who sacrifices his own individuality for the good of an organization

Pullman porter, porter - a railroad employee who assists passengers (especially on sleeping cars)

potboy, potman - a worker in an inn or public house who serves customers and does various chores

public servant - someone who holds a government position (either by election or appointment)

registrar - a person employed to keep a record of the owners of stocks and bonds issued by the company

sales rep, sales representative, salesperson - a person employed to represent a business and to sell its merchandise (as to customers in a store or to customers who are visited)

sandwichman - a person with advertising boards hanging from the shoulders

spotter - a worker employed to apply spots (as markers or identifiers)

spotter - a worker employed at a dry-cleaning establishment to remove spots

staff member, staffer - an employee who is a member of a staff of workers (especially a member of the staff that works for the President of the United States)

stage technician, stagehand - an employee of a theater who performs work involved in putting on a theatrical production

stocktaker, stock-taker - an employee whose job is to take inventory; "an outside stocktaker had to be hired"

sweeper - an employee who sweeps (floors or streets etc.)

toll agent, toll collector, toll taker, tollgatherer, tollkeeper, tollman, toller - someone employed to collect tolls

railroad man, railroader, railway man, railwayman, trainman - an employee of a railroad

turncock - one employed to control water supply by turning water mains on and off

typist - someone paid to operate a typewriter

working man, working person, workingman, workman - an employee who performs manual or industrial labor

employer - a person or firm that employs workers

employee

noun worker, labourer, workman, staff member, member of staff, hand, wage-earner, white-collar worker, blue-collar worker, hired hand, job-holder, member of the workforce Many of the company's employees are women.

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employee

also employe
noun

One who is employed by another:

hireling, jobholder, worker.

Informal: hire, hired hand.

Translations

مَسْتَخْدَم، مُوَظَّفمُوَظَّف

zaměstnanec

ansatmedarbejder

Angestellter Arbeitnehmer Angestellte

υπάλληλος

empleado

työntekijä

employé

zaposlenik

starfsmaîur

dipendente impiegato lavoratore dipendente collaboratore

従業員

고용인

werknemer

ansatt arbeider arbeidstaker funksjonær

pracownik

funcionário

работающий по найму

zamestnanec

uslužbenec

anställd

ลูกจ้าง

çalışan işçi

nhân viên

雇员受雇者

employee

[ˌemplɔɪˈiː]

A. N → empleado/a m/f

B. CPD employee rights NPL → derechos mpl de los trabajadores

Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005

employee

[ɪmˈplɔɪiː ɛmˈplɔɪiː]

n → employé(e) m/f

modif [morale, training, turnover] → des employés; [relations] → avec les employés employee benefits, employee contributionemployee benefits npl → avantages mpl sociauxemployee contribution employee's contribution n (to pension fund) → cotisation f salariale

Collins English/French Electronic Resource. © HarperCollins Publishers 2005

employee

n → Angestellte(r) mf; employees and employers → Arbeitnehmer und Arbeitgeber; the employees (of one firm) → die Belegschaft, die Beschäftigten pl; employee rights → Arbeitnehmerrechte pl

Collins German Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edition 2005. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1980 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007

employee

[ˌɛmplɔɪˈiː] n → dipendente m/f

employ

(imˈploi) verb

1. to give (especially paid) work to. He employs three typists; She is employed as a teacher.

2. to occupy the time or attention of. She was busily employed (in) writing letters.

3. to make use of. You should employ your time better.

emˈployed adjective

having a job; working.

emˈployee, ˌemployˈee (em-) noun

a person employed for wages, a salary etc. That firm has fifty employees.

emˈployer noun

a person who employs others. His employer dismissed him.

emˈployment noun

the act of employing or state of being employed. She was in my employment; This will give employment to more men.

employee

→ مُوَظَّف zaměstnanec ansat Angestellter υπάλληλος empleado työntekijä employé zaposlenik dipendente 従業員 고용인 werknemer ansatt pracownik funcionário работающий по найму anställd ลูกจ้าง işçi nhân viên 雇员

employee

n. empleado-a.

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Thus, had Miss Mason not been his employee, he was confident that he would have had her to luncheon or the theatre in no time.

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So guileless was he, and ignorant of the nature of business, that he did not even realize that he had become an employee of Brown's, and that Brown and Durham were supposed by all the world to be deadly rivals--were even required to be deadly rivals by the law of the land, and ordered to try to ruin each other under penalty of fine and imprisonment!

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not one of the whole party ever having been a regular employee in genteel life.

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Yet now he was sitting in his office, long after the last clerk had left, long after the hour at which he himself was wont to leave, his mind full of his late employee.

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Hal Winters, his fellow employee, was a young fellow.

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According to her father's account, they had come from homes as good as their own; they were certainly more than her equal in fortune; and her father had come to them as an employee, until they had taken him into partnership.

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"Do not speak thus, for your reply evinces neither logic nor philosophy; everything is relative, my dear young friend, from the king who stands in the way of his successor, to the employee who keeps his rival out of a place.

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Peculiarly appropriate in an employee when addressing an employer.

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The men on the freight trains, who go over the whole length of the road, bow to me as to an old acquaintance, they pass me so often, and apparently they take me for an employee; and so I am.

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When I have read of labour troubles between employers and employees, I have often thought that many strikes and similar disturbances might be avoided if the employers would cultivate the habit of getting nearer to their employees, of consulting and advising with them, and letting them feel that the interests of the two are the same.

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And Michael followed at the heels of his latest and most terrible master, the twain leading the procession of employees and visiting professional animal men who trooped along behind.

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The newspapers published information of an unprecedented rise in wages and shortening of hours for the railroad employees, the iron and steel workers, and the engineers and machinists.