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Definition: Employee |
EmployeeNoun1. A worker who is hired to perform a job. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "employee" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1885. (references) |
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Dream Interpretation | To see one of your employees denotes crosses and disturbances if he assumes a disagreeable or offensive attitude. If he is pleasant and has communications of interest, you will find no cause for evil or embarrassing conditions upon waking. Source: Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted .... |
Economics | Any worker who in under wages or salary to an employer and who is not excluded by agreement from consideration as such a worker. Source: European Union. (references) |
Statistics | Persons who work for an employer and receive wages, salaries, room and board, or other compensation for their efforts. This includes domestic employees who are regularly paid to work for any employer(s). It also includes corporate employees. Source: European Union. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
An Employee is any entity that is hired by employers. Typically, it is a worker who is hired to perform a specific job. The employee is in a contract between two parties, the other being the employer, and is called employment. Employees exist in the public, nonprofit, and household sectors (besides the "for-profit" sectors).The employee contributes labour to an enterprise. Employees preform the discrete activity of economic production. An employee may contribute to the evolution of the enterprise, but usually has little control over the productive infrastructure, such as intellectual property and business contacts. Employees usually are the labour in the three factors of production, the others being land and capital.
Employees are assigned a set of tasks, each task being "the job" of the employee. Typical examples include - accountants, solicitors, lawyers, photographers, among many other worker classifications.
Workers who sell their labor on their own are called independent contractors and they are not technically classified as employees.
See also: Profession, List of professions
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Employee."
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Employment is a contract between two parties, one being the employer and the other being the employee. In this relationship, the employer conceives of a productive activity, generally with the intention of creating financial revenues, and the employee contributes labour to the enterprise, usually in return for payment. Employment also exists in the public, nonprofit and household sectors. An employer is any entity that hires employees.The employee may contribute to the evolution of the enterprise, but the employer maintains control over the productive infrastructure, such as intellectual property and business contacts. Many persons sell their labor without having legal standing as employees. These workers are called independent contractors.
Employment is almost universal in capitalist societies, while it was of minor significance in pre-capitalist societies. To the extent that employment or the economic equivalent is not universal, unemployment exists.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Employment."
| Antonym: employer (n). (additional references) |
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Screenplays | $2.99, plus by 10% employee discount, since I didn't bring you anything on our date last night (Sling Blade; writing credit: Charles Chaplin) If you get a customer or an employee who thinks he's Charles Bronson, take the butt of your gun and smash their nose in. (Reservoir Dogs; writing credit: Quentin Tarantino) You've been the bad employee, the bad son, the bad friend (Seinfeld; writing credit: Andreas Lenze; Bea Schmidt) Normal said if I made two more runs before lunch, he going to make me employee of the week (Dark Angel; writing credit: Ben Aaronovitch; Mark Ezra) I am your employee and as such I expect to be treated with a little dignity and a little respect (Nine to Five; writing credit: Colin Higgins) | |
Clever | When asked by his boss why he only worked four days a week, the employee replied: "Because I can't manage on three days a week. (references; author: unknown) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Edison Employee Picnic (1894) The Employee of the Month (2002) Employee of the Month (1994) | |
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 | Shown are several different shots of an NIH employee, Shana Malone in her working environment. Shana works while seated in a wheelchair and can walk with the assistance of crutches. Credit: Ernie Branson (photographer). |  | Employee adjusting controls of a Woodman Machine (glassware washer) at CDC. Credit: CDC. |
 | Employee tending one of several incinerators located at CDC. Credit: CDC. |  | Tom Borden Possibly Coast and Geodetic Survey employee. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. |
 | NWS employee Sarah Roy faces an onslaught of cabin cruisers and an impending storm as she nears the end of a 25-mile trek down the Patuxent River. Credit: America's Coastlines. |  | National Weather Service employee Sarah Roy checking out the cat-tails in a Patuxent River marsh. Credit: America's Coastlines. |
 | In the bridge laboratory. Left to right: H. Bouree; L. Tinayre; J. Richard. In the rear: the botanist Louis Gain; to the left is Papanicolau, an employee of the oceanographic museum. Plate IV, print 20. In: "Results of the Scientific Campaigns of the Prince of Monaco." Vol. 89. Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now. |  | Lynette Siegley, an employee with the Iowa Department of Natural Resources, collects water samples in Sny Magill Creek in Clayton County in northeast Iowa. Credit: Tim McCabe. |
 | NRCS employee evaluating streambank stabilization project. This is a Wildlife Habitat Incentives Program (WHIP) project to improve salmon habitat. Credit: Gary Wilson. |  | An FSIS employee works in the microbiology lab. . Credit: USDA. |
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| "Games Warehouse" by Ryan Glanzer Commentary: "An employee in the Valleyfair Games department stocks the game with donkey prizes in the morning." |
Source: photographs selected by the editor, with permission from the photographers. |
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | Most of our hospitals know to send all samples here, but the occasional mistake with a new employee may occur. (references) | |
Each employee must be individually fitted with protectors and trained in their correct use and care. Employees need feedback about their audiometric monitoring results annually. (references) | ||
Business | The Association has one paid employee as an executive secretariat. (references) | |
Companies are also responsible for additional costs for the employee according to the federal labor law. (references) | ||
Even states with little industry have transport and public employee unions, and rural peasant organizations are omnipresent. (references) | ||
Children | Bulgaria | On the one hand, the law provides incentives for small firms to hire persons with disabilities; for example, the Bureau of Labor pays the first year's salary of a disabled employee. (references) |
Civil Liberties | Liberia | On June 17, a local embassy employee was shot and injured at a checkpoint; he received medical treatment abroad. (references) |
Jordan | In April and September 1999, a foreign employee of a small language school in Amman applied for a residence permit from the Ministry of Interior. (references) | |
Economic History | Belgium | Firing a Belgian employee can be very expensive. (references) |
Lebanon | A U.S. Commercial Service employee joined the embassy staff in 1999. (references) | |
Sri Lanka | A few large Sri Lankan firms have started Employee Share Option Schemes. (references) | |
Human Rights | Colombia | In July another employee of the program, Eduardo Estrada, was murdered in San Pablo, Bolivar department. (references) |
Kazakhstan | On June 11, the employee of the Internal Affairs Department was acquitted based on his own rehabilitation. (references) | |
Kazakhstan | In April 2001, the Prosecutor's office opened a case against an employee of the regional Internal Affairs Department. (references) | |
Political Economy | SOUTH AFRICA | Moreover, no employee can be fired or prejudiced because of membership in or advocacy of a trade union. (references) |
PANAMA | Civil service workers are permitted to form public employee associations and federations, though not unions. (references) | |
INDONESIA | Employer violations of legal requirements are fairly common and often result in strikes and employee protests. (references) | |
Trade | El Salvador | Importers of fresh produce, livestock, and food products should check with the Ministry of Agriculture, the USDA office in Guatemala or the local USDA employee at the U.S. Embassy in San Salvador for the latest phytosanitary regulations. (references) |
Malaysia | In the past, major infrastructure projects have been funded by a variety of means: Malaysian government funds, the domestic capital markets, banks and investment funds like the Employee Provident Fund, international consortia, and supplier credits. (references) | |
Portugal | Madeira offers exemptions from corporate or individual income tax on licensed companies through the year 2011. It also offers grants of up to 100% of employee training costs and up to 50% of the cost of energy-saving changes in production measures. (references) | |
Travel | Saudi Arabia | Local Saudi employee taxes are 15 percent of base or combined with benefits. (references) |
Honduras | This letter must describe the type of job or specialized work that the foreign employee will execute. (references) | |
Saudi Arabia | The sponsor (normally the employer) obtains a work and residence permit for the employee and for any family members. (references) | |
Women | Saudi Arabia | Women risk arrest by the Mutawwa'in for riding in a vehicle driven by a male who is not an employee or a close male relative. (references) |
Israel and the occupied territories | The amendment also prohibited any employer from dismissing an employee during that person's first 6 months of residence in a shelter. (references) | |
Ecuador | Typical cases of sexual harassment reported in the press involve instances where a supervisor solicits sexual favors from an employee. (references) | |
Worker Rights | Syria | Such committees usually find in favor of the employee. (references) |
El Salvador | Some of the most powerful labor groups are public employee associations. (references) | |
Lebanon | Labor regulations require employers to take adequate precautions for employee safety. (references) | |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | ABASEMENT, n. A decent and customary mental attitude in the presence of wealth of power. Peculiarly appropriate in an employee when addressing an employer. |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
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Robert Novak | Congressman, the homeland security bill is stalled in the Senate over the issue of government employee labor unions and how much power they should have. |
Rush Limbaugh | Fund employee retirement. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| "Employee" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 99.45% of the time. "Employee" is used about 2,911 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 99.45% | 2,895 | 3,212 |
| Noun (proper) | 0.38% | 11 | 106,044 |
| Noun (common) | 0.1% | 3 | 202,518 |
| Unclassified Items | 0.07% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Total | 100.00% | 2,911 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Country | Name |
| USA | Employee Solutions, Inc. |
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Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.
Expressions using "employee": bank employee ♦ civil employee ♦ commercial employee ♦ Employee Discipline ♦ employee fund ♦ Employee Grievances ♦ Employee Incentive Plans ♦ employee investment ♦ employee ownership ♦ employee participation ♦ employee pension fund ♦ Employee Performance Appraisal ♦ employee rating ♦ Employee Retirement Income Security Act ♦ employee savings plan ♦ employee stock ownership plan ♦ employee tax ♦ federal employee ♦ foreign employee ♦ former employee ♦ government employee ♦ hourly employee ♦ key employee ♦ local wage nato civilian employee ♦ managerial employee ♦ modal employee ♦ pregnant employee ♦ public employee ♦ retired employee ♦ salaried employee ♦ share allotted to an employee ♦ staff employee ♦ state employee. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "employee": employee-based, employee-centered, employee-centred, employee-controlled, employee-details, employee-employer relationship, employee-holder, employee-involvement, employee-led, employee-like, employee-management, employee-orientation, employee-oriented, employee-owned, employee-owned business, employee-owned enterprise, employee-share, employee-shareholders. | |
Ending with "employee": employer-employee, ex-employee, management-employee. | |
Containing "employee": employer-employee relationship. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "employee"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Afrikaans | werknemer. (various references) | |
Albanian | punonjës (employe, plodder, worker), nëpunës (clerk, employe). (various references) | |
Arabic | موظف (civil servant), مستخدم (hired, servant, used), عامل (active, agent, cooperative, engine, fillip, hand, industrious, ingredient, laborer, labourer, process, use, working, workman), المستخدم (employer, user), القائم مقام موظف, الأجير (wage earner, worker). (various references) | |
Asturian | emplegáu. (various references) | |
Bemba | umubomfi. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | служещ (employe, office holder, officer, white collar worker). (various references) | |
Catalan | empleat (teller). (various references) | |
Cebuano | kawani. (various references) | |
Chamorro | empleáo. (various references) | |
Chinese | 雇員 , 雇员, 僱員 , 員 (member, person). (various references) | |
Cornish | arfedhysak. (various references) | |
Czech | zamìstnanec (civil servant). (various references) | |
Danish | loenmodtager (employed, employed earner, employed person, employed persons by place of residence, wage earner, wage worker), lønmodtager (employed earner, employed person, employed persons by place of residence, wage earner, wage worker), arbejdstager (employed, employed earner, employed person, employed persons by place of residence, wage earner, wage worker, worker), arbejder (hand, laborer, labourer, operative, worker, working man, workman). (various references) | |
Dutch | werknemer (employed earner, employed person, employed persons by place of residence, wage earner, wage worker, worker), personeelslid, employé. (various references) | |
Ecuadorian Quechua | llamcac. (various references) | |
Esperanto | dungito. (various references) | |
Faeroese | starvsfólk. (various references) | |
Farsi | مستخدم زن , مستخدم (Man, Retainer), کارمند (Jobholder, Member), کارگر (Effective, Labor, Laborer, Operative, Proletarian, Worker, Workingman, Workman, Workpeople). (various references) | |
Finnish | virkailija (functionary, officer, official). (various references) | |
French | employé (employed earner, employed person, employed persons by place of residence, staff employee, white-collar employee), travailleur, ouvrier (employed earner, employed person, employed persons by place of residence), employée. (various references) | |
Frisian | wurknimmer. (various references) | |
German | arbeitnehmer (public servant, worker), angestellte (clerk, office worker, pier, shipping clerk, staffer, white collar worker). (various references) | |
Greek | μισθωτός (employed, employed earner, employed person, employed persons by place of residence, wage earner, wage worker), υπάλληλοσ (clerk, officer). (various references) | |
Hebrew | מועסק (employed, engaged, occupied), עובד (hand, laborer, labourer, worker, workman). (various references) | |
Hungarian | munkavállaló (employed). (various references) | |
Icelandic | starfsmaður. (various references) | |
Indonesian | pekerja (worker), pegawai (clerk, crew). (various references) | |
Inuktitut | iqanaijaqti. (various references) | |
Italian | impiegato (clerk, office worker, officer, official, servant, staffer), impiegata. (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 雇い人. (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | しりいん (city official), しゅうもち (serving a master), しゅもち (serving a master), きんむいん (worker), しようにん (servant), ひようしゃ, ほうこうにん (servant), かかえ (armful), こいん (assistant), こようしゃ (person hiring others), やといにん, やとい (employment, government employee), ようにん (approval, manager, steward), じゅうぎょういん (worker), てんいん (clerk, salesperson, shop assistant). (various references) | |
Korean | 사원 (temple). (various references) | |
Luxembourgish | employé. (various references) | |
Macedonian | rabotnik. (various references) | |
Manx | failleydagh. (various references) | |
Norwegian | arbeidstaker. (various references) | |
Papiamen | empleado. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | employeeay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | empregado (appointed, clerk, door's-man, menial, perquisite, porter, servant, shop assistant, waiter). (various references) | |
Provencal | emplegat, emplegada. (various references) | |
Romanian | slujbaş (clerk), salariat (paid, regular, remunerated, salaried, stipendiary, wage earner), funcţionar (clerk, functionary, magistrate, officer, official, servant), angajat (employed, engaged, foul, hireling, in place, super), amploiat (clerk). (various references) | |
Romansch | emploiada, emploià. (various references) | |
Ruanda | umukozi. (various references) | |
Russian | служащий (employe, servant). (various references) | |
Samoan | tagata faigaluega. (various references) | |
Sepedi | moswaratiro. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | zaposlenik, službenik (clerk, incumbent, office bearer, office holder, official, servant, service book). (various references) | |
Shona | musevenzi. (various references) | |
Sicilian | impiegatu. (various references) | |
Spanish | empleado (clerk, help, officer, official, servant, used). (various references) | |
Swazi | sí-sebénti. (various references) | |
Swedish | arbetstagare (worker), anställd (engaged). (various references) | |
Tagalog | kawáni. (various references) | |
Thai | ลูกจ้าง. (various references) | |
Turkish | personel (manpower, personnel, staff, staff member), işçi (laborer, labourer, man, oar, prole, proletarian, soldier, worker, workingman, workman), hizmetli (attendant, follower, servant, vassal), görevlisi, görevli (attendant, functionary, incumbent, office bearer, on duty), adam (bean, bird, bozo, Buster, chap, cookie, cooky, cuss, Dick, dog, feller, fellow, fellow man, guy, Jack, joker, man, person). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | службовець (officer, official, servant), робітник (blue collar, roustabout, shopman, wage earner, worker, working man, workman), працівник (earner, help, worker, working man, workman). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | người làm công, người làm (doer, maker, wright). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "employee": employees. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "employee": nonemployee. (additional references) | |
Words containing "employee": nonemployees. (additional references) | |
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"Employee" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: emplloyee, emploie, emplore, employa, employe, employeed, employes, Employmee, emplyee, melpomene. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "e-e-e-l-m-o-p-y" | |
-1 letter: employe. | |
-2 letters: employ. | |
-3 letters: elope, melee, mopey, myope. | |
-4 letters: eely, elmy, epee, lope, mole, moly, mope, mopy, peel, pele, ploy, poem, pole, poly, pome, yelp, ylem. | |
-5 letters: eel, elm, eme, eye, lee, ley, lop, lye, mel, mol, mop, ole, ope, pee, ply, pol, pom, pye, yep, yom. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-e-e-l-m-o-p-y" | |
+1 letter: employees. | |
+2 letters: reemployed. | |
+3 letters: nonemployee. | |
+4 letters: depolymerize, nephelometry, nonemployees, redeployment, reemployment. | |
+5 letters: depolymerized, depolymerizes, preemployment, pyrheliometer, redeployments, reemployments, underemployed. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
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