Employee

English

Noun

Employee (plural Employees)

1. An individual who provides labor to a company or another person.

Adjectives for Employee

conscientious; rank-and-file; valued; prudent; salaried; unionized; diligent; energetic; studious; attentive; conscientious; consistent; organized; passionate; hard-working; determined; trustworthy; resolute; steadfast; committed; loyal; skillful; methodical; self-starter; reliable; motivated; industrious; persistent; dynamic; aggressive; enthusiastic; enterprising; professional

Verbs for Employee

agitate—s; assign—to; coerce—; command—; discard—; dismiss—; dock—; engage—; engross—; enroll—; intimidate—; manage—s; misuse—; regulate—s; supervise—s; —s demand; —exerts; —obeys; —s organize; —s recess; —s strike.

Thesaurus

servant, stiff, subordinate, temporary, toiler, underling, understrapper, wage earner, wage slave, wageworker, worker, workgirl, workhand, working girl, workingman, workingwoman, workman, assistant, blue-collar worker, breadwinner, casual, casual laborer, common laborer, day laborer, factory worker, flunky, free lance, free-lancer, full-time worker, girl Friday, hand, helper, hired hand, hired man, hireling, industrial worker, inferior, jobber, jobholder, junior, laborer, laboring man, man Friday, menial, mercenary, migrant, moiler, myrmidon, navvy, office temporary, pensioner, proletarian, right-hand man, roustabout, salaried worker, secondary, self-employed person,

Alternative forms

• employe

Pronunciation

• IPA: /ɪmˌplɔɪˈiː/

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• Rhymes: -iː

Etymology

From French employé.

See also

• payroll
• taxes
• work

Related terms

• employment
• employer

Translations

individual who provides labor to a company or another person

Arabic: موظف (ar) (muwáZZaf) m., موظفة (ar) (muwaZZáfa) f. Chechen: белахо Chinese: Mandarin: 雇員 (zh), 雇员 (zh) (gùyuán), 職員 (zh), 职员 (zh) (zhíyuán) Czech: zaměstnanec (cs) m. Danish: ansat (da) c. Dutch: bediende (nl) m. and f., werknemer (nl) m., medewerker (nl) m. Finnish: työntekijä (fi) French: employé (fr) m., employée (fr) f. Galician: empregado m., empregada f. German: Angestellter (de) m., Angestellte (de) f. Greek: υπάλληλος (el) (ypállilos) c. Hungarian: alkalmazott (hu), dolgozó (hu) Irish: fostaí (ga) m. Japanese: 従業員 (ja) (じゅうぎょういん, jūgyōin), 雇員 (ja) (こいん, koin), 勤務員 (ja) (きんむいん, kinmuin), 使用人 (ja) (しようにん, shiyōin) Kurdish: karker (ku) Macedonian: вработен (mk) (vráboten) m., работник (mk) (rábotnik) m., службеник (mk) (slúžbenik) m.

Manx: failleydagh (gv) m., obbree (gv) m. Norwegian: Bokmål: arbeidstaker (nb) m. Nynorsk: arbeidstakar (nn) m. Polish: pracownik m., pracownica f. Portuguese: empregado (pt) m., empregada (pt) f. Romanian: angajat m., angajată f. Romansch: emploià (rm) m., emploiada (rm) f. Russian: работник (ru) (rabótnik) m., работница (ru) (rabótnica) f., служащий (ru) (slúžaščij) m., служащая (ru) (slúžaščaja) f., сотрудник (ru) (sotrúdnik) m., сотрудница (ru) (sotrúdnica) f. Scottish Gaelic: cosnaiche (gd) m., neach-obrach (gd) m. Serbian: запосленик (sr) (zaposlenik) m., послопримац (sr) (posloprimac) m. Spanish: empleado (es) m., empleada (es) f. Swahili: mwajiriwa (sw) Swedish: anställd (sv) c., arbetstagare (sv) c. Turkish: çalışan, personel Vietnamese: nhân viên (vi) Volapük: (male or female) vobükäb (vo), (male) hivobükäb (vo)