a person hired by another, or by a business firm, etc., to work for wages or salary
Word origin
Fr employé: see employ & -ee1
COBUILD Collocations
employee
full-time employee
junior employee
part-time employee
salaried employee
senior employee
Examples of 'employee' in a sentence
employee
Would firms having these employees upgrade their terms of employment to keep them there for longer?
Computing (2010)
Training and certification delivers tangible returns while showing employees they are valued.
Computing (2010)
The two leaders will announce a new double taxation agreement to help businesses and employees in both countries.
Times, Sunday Times (2016)
He says the Indian employees have mixed feelings.
Times, Sunday Times (2016)
Nearly a quarter of companies admitted that some employees worked more than 80 hours of overtime each month.
Times, Sunday Times (2016)
As a result, some firms are allowing employees an extra hour for their lunch tomorrow so they have time to shop.
The Sun (2016)
This requires the firm to have a culture it is proud of and for each employee to feel equally valued, regardless of gender or background.
Times, Sunday Times (2017)
There are calls for the numbers of firms and employees to be curbed.
Times, Sunday Times (2009)
The employee must return any excess reimbursement or allowance within a reasonable period of time.
Christianity Today (2000)
She is just the kind of employee the government hopes will stay in the saddle.
Times, Sunday Times (2009)
Employees feel increasingly beleaguered and burnt out.
Times, Sunday Times (2007)
The company declined to say whether other employees were involved in the investigation.
Times, Sunday Times (2012)
The majority of people who work for an organization may still be employees of the organization.
Peter F. Drucker THE ESSENTIAL DRUCKER (2001)
Famous couple stop former employee talking about their lives and family.
The Sun (2011)
He has also written to business leaders after some firms banned employees from wearing poppies with pins.
Times, Sunday Times (2013)
Most employees should return to their former jobs.
Petch, Dr Michael BMA Family Doctor Guide - Heart Disease (1989)
Another specialist recommends that employers follow up on returning employees.
Times, Sunday Times (2009)
And so ensuring that all employees feel included and encouraged to be themselves is paramount.
Times, Sunday Times (2016)
The bank is still vulnerable to civil litigation and potential criminal cases brought against current and former employees.
Times, Sunday Times (2013)
This time round we have been seeing a genuine collaboration between businesses and their employees in finding alternatives to redundancy.
Times, Sunday Times (2009)
You must carry out a risk assessment on the employee's work.
Times, Sunday Times (2013)
Secondly, we need to be encouraging more small businesses to hire employees by cutting red tape.
The Sun (2014)
They target mainly defence industry executives and government employees, the report said.
Times, Sunday Times (2014)
While this is more difficult if you are an employee, some firms will defer payments.
Times, Sunday Times (2012)
Employees praise the business as a positive, nurturing environment.
Times, Sunday Times (2013)
You say the employee is a good worker, so in the end you may need to draw a balance.
Times, Sunday Times (2012)
Human resource planners are concerned with trends of employees leaving the organization, sometimes called wastage or turnover; but also with trends of internal employee movements.
Torrington, Derek Personnel Management: A New Approach (1991)
In other languages
employee
British English: employee /ɛmˈplɔɪiː; ˌɛmplɔɪˈiː/ NOUN
An employee is a person who is paid to work for a company or organization.
He is an employee of the bank.
American English: employee
Arabic: مُوَظَّف
Brazilian Portuguese: funcionário
Chinese: 雇员
Croatian: zaposlenik
Czech: zaměstnanec
Danish: ansat
Dutch: werknemer
European Spanish: empleado
Finnish: työntekijä työnantajan näkökulmasta
French: employé
German: Angestellter
Greek: υπάλληλος
Italian: dipendente
Japanese: 従業員
Korean: 고용인
Norwegian: ansatt
Polish: pracownik
European Portuguese: funcionário
Romanian: angajat
Russian: работающий по найму
Latin American Spanish: empleado
Swedish: anställd
Thai: ลูกจ้าง
Turkish: işçi
Ukrainian: працівник
Vietnamese: nhân viên
All related terms of 'employee'
employee survey
If you carry out a survey , you try to find out detailed information about a lot of different people or things, usually by asking people a series of questions .
junior employee
An employee is a person who is paid to work for an organization or for another person.
senior employee
An employee is a person who is paid to work for an organization or for another person.
employee benefits
benefits , such as health insurance, pension payments, or childcare , given to employees in addition to their usual salary or wage
employee discount
When the employees of a store or other retail business are entitled to an employee discount , they do not have to pay the full price for goods they buy in the store.
employee expenses
Expenses are amounts of money that you spend while doing something in the course of your work, which will be paid back to you afterwards .
salaried employee
An employee is a person who is paid to work for an organization or for another person.
employee association
an organization, other than a trade union , whose members comprise employees of a single employing organization. The aims of the association may be social, recreational , or professional
employee contribution
money contributed by an employee to his or her employer's pension fund
full-time employee
An employee is a person who is paid to work for an organization or for another person.
employee stock ownership plan
a programme offered to employees that enables them to buy stocks in the company and thus play a role in its management
ESOP
Employee Stock Ownership Plan : a compensation plan set up by a company and funded with its tax-deductible contributions by which qualified employees accumulate shares of the company's stock
Chinese translation of 'employee'
employee
(ɪmplɔɪˈiː)
n(c)
雇(僱)员(員) (gùyuán) (个(個), gè)
(noun)
Definition
a person who is hired to work for someone in return for payment
Many of the company's employees are women.
Synonyms
worker
Wages have been frozen and workers laid off.
labourer
Her husband had been a farm labourer.
or woman or person">workman or woman or person
The workmen were building a fence around the area.
staff member
member of staff
hand
He now works as a farm hand.
wage-earner
white-collar worker
blue-collar worker
hired hand
job-holder
member of the workforce
Additional synonyms
in the sense of hand
Definition
a manual worker
He now works as a farm hand.
Synonyms
worker,
employee,
labourer,
workman,
operative,
or woman or person">craftsman or woman or person,
artisan,
artificer,
hired man,
hireling
in the sense of labourer
Definition
a person engaged in physical work
Her husband had been a farm labourer.
Synonyms
worker,
or woman or person">workman or woman or person,
working man or woman or person,
manual worker,
hand,
blue-collar worker,
drudge,
unskilled worker,
navvy (British, informal),
labouring man
in the sense of workman
Definition
a man who is employed to do manual work
The workmen were building a fence around the area.