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Grammar : Noun

Spell : em-ploi-ee, em-ploi-ee, em-ploi-ee

Phonetic Transcription : ɛmˈplɔɪ i, ɛm plɔɪˈi, ˌɛm plɔɪˈi

Definition of employee

Origin : "person employed," 1850, mainly in U.S. use, from employ + -ee.

noun person being paid for working for another or a corporation

Example sentences :

An employee who had come down with them started to be their guide.
Extract from : « The Spenders » by Harry Leon Wilson

Dressed as one of the miners they took him to be an employee.
Extract from : « The Spenders » by Harry Leon Wilson

She pretended that at first she took young Bines for what we all took him, an employee of the mine.
Extract from : « The Spenders » by Harry Leon Wilson

Peculiarly appropriate in an employee when addressing an employer.
Extract from : « The Devil's Dictionary » by Ambrose Bierce

Then will the employer and employee find a common ground on which each can benefit.
Extract from : « Herbert Hoover » by Vernon Kellogg

"One would think he were the employer and I the employee," he grumbled smilingly.
Extract from : « Dreamers of the Ghetto » by I. Zangwill

He is doing better work as an employee than he did as a slave.
Extract from : « Sparkling Gems of Race Knowledge Worth Reading » by Various

He is an employee of somebody, an employer of somebody, and a consumer.
Extract from : « The Ghost in the White House » by Gerald Stanley Lee

But their special interests as employer and employee are antithetical.
Extract from : « Socialism » by John Spargo

He saw him at the head of his firm, hated and despised by every employee.
Extract from : « Quin » by Alice Hegan Rice

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