employee
Americannoun
noun
Usage
What does employee mean? An employee is someone who gets paid to work for a person or company.Workers don’t need to work full time to be considered employees—they simply need to be paid to work by an employer (the person or business that pays them). The term employee is sometimes used to distinguish contract workers from full employees (who often earn additional benefits), but in this example, both types of workers are considered employees in the general sense.Example: My company has more than 500 employees.
Other Word Forms
- preemployee noun
- proemployee adjective
Etymology
Origin of employee
First recorded in 1825–35; from French employé “employed,” past participle of employer to employ; -ee
Example Sentences
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Block CEO Jack Dorsey’s shareholder letter pointed to “intelligence tools” as helping the company do more with a dramatically smaller number of employees.
From MarketWatch
Most employees acquire those skills over time—by learning from their nonwork relationships, watching how colleagues behave in the office, and by seeing what happens when they stumble in their own workplace interactions.
Many tech workers saw the move as the clearest sign yet that companies would be far smaller in the future—and that employees would bear the pain.
In February, it was revealed that two employees of a Russian private security company were aboard another suspected Russian "shadow fleet" tanker seized by France in September.
From Barron's
What is more likely, economists say, is that AI will help most employees to do their jobs better, instead of putting them out of work altogether.
From MarketWatch
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