employee

See also: employée

English

Alternative forms

• employe (dated)

Etymology

From employ +‎ -ee. First attested in the early 19th century, possibly modeled after French employé.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌɛmplɔɪˈiː/, /ˌɛmˈplɔɪiː/, /ɪm-/

• Audio (US):

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• Hyphenation: em‧ploy‧ee
• Rhymes: -iː

Noun

employee (plural employees)

1. A person who provides labor to a company or another person.

   Synonyms: member of staff; associate (sometimes euphemistically synonymous)

   Hypernym: worker

   Holonyms: business, company

   Coordinate terms: employer; (in some contexts hyponymous) boss, manager

   One way to encourage your employees to work harder is by giving them incentives.

   • 1904–1905, Baroness Orczy [i.e., Emma Orczy], “The Hocussing of Cigarette”, in The Case of Miss Elliott, London: T[homas] Fisher Unwin, published 1905, →OCLC; republished as popular edition, London: Greening & Co., 1909, OCLC 11192831, quoted in The Case of Miss Elliott (ebook no. 2000141h.html), Australia: Project Gutenberg of Australia, February 2020:

     No one, however, would have anything to do with him, as Mr. Keeson's orders in those respects were very strict ; he had often threatened any one of his employés with instant dismissal if he found him in company with one of these touts.

Derived terms

• antiemployee
• business-to-employee
• coemployee
• employee benefit
• employee handbook
• employeeless
• ghost employee
• nonemployee
• unemployee
• W-2 employee

 

Related terms

• employ
• employé
• employée
• employer
• employment

 

Translations

person who provides labor to a company or another person

• Albanian: punonjës (sq) m, punonjëse (sq) f
• Arabic: مُوَظَّف m (muwaẓẓaf), مُوَظَّفَة f (muwaẓẓafa)
• Armenian: աշխատող (hy) (ašxatoġ), աշխատակից (hy) (ašxatakicʻ)
• Azerbaijani: əməkdaş (az)
• Belarusian: супрацо́ўнік m (supracóŭnik), супрацо́ўніца f (supracóŭnica), рабо́тнік m (rabótnik), рабо́тніца f (rabótnica)
• Bulgarian: слу́жещ (bg) m (slúžešt), слу́жеща (bg) f (slúžešta), рабо́тник (bg) m (rabótnik), рабо́тничка f (rabótnička)
• Burmese: အလုပ်သမား (my) (a.lupsa.ma:)
• Catalan: empleat m, empleada f
• Chechen: белхало (belxalo)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 僱員 / 雇员 (zh) (gùyuán), 職員 / 职员 (zh) (zhíyuán)

• Czech: zaměstnanec (cs) m, zaměstnankyně (cs) f
• Danish: ansat c, arbejdstager (da) c
• Dutch: bediende (nl) m or f, werknemer (nl) m, werkneemster (nl) f, medewerker (nl) m, medewerkster (nl) f,
• Esperanto: dungito (eo)
• Estonian: töötaja (et)
• Finnish: työntekijä (fi)
• French: employé (fr) m, employée (fr) f, salarié (fr) m, salariée (fr) f
• Galician: empregado (gl) m, empregada f
• Georgian: მოსამსახურე (mosamsaxure), დასაქმებული (dasakmebuli), თანამშრომელი (tanamšromeli)
• German: Arbeitnehmer (de) m, Arbeitnehmerin (de) f, Angestellter (de) m, Angestellte (de) f
• Greek: υπάλληλος (el) m or f (ypállilos)
• Hebrew: שָׂכִיר (he) m (sakhír), מָעֳסָק m (mo'osáq)
• Hindi: कर्मचारी (hi) m (karmacārī)
• Hungarian: munkavállaló (hu), alkalmazott (hu), dolgozó (hu)
• Icelandic: starfsmaður (is) m
• Ido: employato (io)
• Indonesian: pegawai (id), pekerja (id), karyawan (id) m, karyawati (id) f
• Irish: fostaí m
• Italian: dipendente (it) m or f
• Japanese: 従業員 (ja) (じゅうぎょういん, jūgyōin), 雇員 (ja) (こいん, koin), 勤務員 (ja) (きんむいん, kinmuin), 使用人 (ja) (しようにん, shiyōin), 職員 (ja) (しょくいん, shokuin)
• Kabuverdianu: enpregada
• Kazakh: қызметкер (qyzmetker)
• Khmer: និយោជិត (km) (niyoocɨt), និយោជិតា (niyoocitaa) (female), បុគ្គលិក (km) (bokkĕəʼlɨk)
• Korean: 직원(職員) (ko) (jigwon), 종업원(從業員) (ko) (jong'eobwon)
• Kurdish:

  Central Kurdish: ڕاگرتە (ckb) (ragirte)

• Kyrgyz: кызматкер (ky) (kızmatker)
• Lao: ລູກ​ຈ້າງ (lūk chāng)
• Latin: conductus m, mercēnnārius m
• Latvian: darbinieks m, darbiniece f
• Lithuanian: darbuotojas (lt) m, darbuotoja f
• Luxembourgish: Employé m
• Macedonian: вработен m (vraboten), работник (mk) m (rabotnik), работничка f (rabotnička), службеник m (službenik), службеничка f (službenička)
• Malagasy: mpiasa (mg)
• Malay: pekerja (ms)
• Malayalam: ജീവനക്കാരൻ (ml) (jīvanakkāraṉ), തൊഴിലാളി (ml) (toḻilāḷi)
• Manx: failleydagh m, obbree m
• Marathi: कर्मचारी m (karmacārī)
• Middle English: servaunt
• Mongolian:

  Cyrillic: ажилтан (mn) (ažiltan)

• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: arbeidstaker m, ansatte pl (cf. ansatt, ansette)

  Nynorsk: arbeidstakar m

• Old English: wyrhta m
• Ottoman Turkish: چالیشان (çalışan), موظف (muwazzaf)
• Persian: کارمند (fa) (kârmand), کارگر (fa) (kârgar)
• Polish: pracownik (pl) m, pracownica (pl) f
• Portuguese: empregado (pt) m, empregada (pt) f
• Romanian: angajat (ro) m, angajată (ro) f
• Romansch: emploià m, emploiada f
• Russian: рабо́тник (ru) m (rabótnik), рабо́тница (ru) f (rabótnica), слу́жащий (ru) m (slúžaščij), слу́жащая (ru) f (slúžaščaja), сотру́дник (ru) m (sotrúdnik), сотру́дница (ru) f (sotrúdnica)
• Scottish Gaelic: cosnaiche m, neach-obrach m
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: запослѐнӣк m, запослѐница f, послопри́мац m, ра̑днӣк m, ра̑дница f

  Roman: zaposlènīk (sh) m, zaposlènica (sh) f, posloprímac (sh) m, rȃdnīk (sh) m, rȃdnica (sh) f

• Slovak: zamestnanec m, zamestnankyňa f
• Slovene: nameščenec m, nameščenka f
• Spanish: empleado (es) m, empleada (es) f
• Swahili: mwajiriwa (sw)
• Swedish: anställd (sv) c, arbetstagare (sv) c, medarbetare (sv) c
• Tagalog: kawani, empleado
• Tajik: корманд (tg) (kormand), хизматчӣ (xizmatči), коргар (tg) (korgar)
• Tatar: хезмәткәр (tt) (xezmätkär)
• Thai: ลูกจ้าง (th) (lûuk-jâang), พนักงาน (th) (pá-nák-ngaan)
• Turkish: çalışan (tr), personel (tr)
• Ukrainian: робітни́к (uk) m (robitnýk), робітни́ця f (robitnýcja), працівни́к (uk) m (pracivnýk), працівни́ця (uk) f (pracivnýcja), співробітни́к m (spivrobitnýk), співробітни́ця f (spivrobitnýcja)
• Uyghur: خىزمەتچى (xizmetchi)
• Uzbek: xizmatchi (uz)
• Vietnamese: nhân viên (vi) (人員)
• Volapük: vobükäb
• Walloon: eployî (wa) m

See also

• payroll
• taxes
• work