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
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

Synonyms for employee

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