employee
1employee — em·ploy·ee or em·ploye n: a person usu. below the executive level who is hired by another to perform a service esp. for wages or salary and is under the other s control see also respondeat superior compare independent contractor ◇ In determining… …
2employee — em‧ploy‧ee [ɪmˈplɔɪˌiː, ˌemplɔɪˈiː] noun [countable] HUMAN RESOURCES JOBS someone who is paid to work for an organization, especially someone who has a job of low rank: • A large proportion of the company s employees work outside the UK. •… …
3employee — has replaced employé (feminine employée) as the dominant form in BrE for someone who is employed. In AmE the alternative form is employe, pronounced as three syllables and usually stressed on the second …
4Employee — Em ploy*ee , n. [The Eng. form of employ[ e].] One employed by another. [1913 Webster] …
5employee — person employed, 1850, mainly in U.S. use, from EMPLOY (Cf. employ) + EE (Cf. ee) …
6employee — [n] person being paid for working for another or a corporation agent, apprentice, assistant, attendant, blue collar*, breadwinner*, clerk, cog*, company person, craftsperson, desk jockey*, domestic, hand, help, hired gun*, hired hand*, hireling,… …
7employee — ► NOUN ▪ a person employed for wages or salary …
8employee — or employe [em ploi′ē, imploi′ē; em ploi΄ē′, imploi΄ē; em΄ploi ē′] n. [Fr employé: see EMPLOY & EE1] a person hired by another, or by a business firm, etc., to work for wages or salary …
9employee — noun ADJECTIVE ▪ paid, salaried ▪ full time, part time ▪ We have around 100 full time employees. ▪ hourly (= paid per hour of work) (AmE) …
10employee — n. 1) to engage (esp. BE), hire (esp. AE), take on an employee 2) to dismiss, fire, sack (colloq.) an employee; (BE) to make an employee redundant 3) a government; white collar employee 4) a full time; part time employee 5) a fellow employee * *… …
