Antonyms for employee
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
- 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
Synonyms for employee
- agent
- apprentice
- assistant
- attendant
- blue collar
- breadwinner
- clerk
- cog
- company person
- craftsperson
- desk jockey
- domestic
- hand
- help
- hired gun
- hired hand
- hireling
- jobholder
- laborer
- member
- operator
- pink collar
- plug
- representative
- sales help
- salesperson
- servant
- slave
- staff member
- wage-earner
- white collar
- worker
- working stiff
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