employee

See also: employée

English

Alternative forms

employe (dated)
employé (dated)

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French employé. Equivalent to employ +‎ -ee.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ɛmplɔɪˈiː/, /ˌɛmˈplɔɪiː/, /(ˌ)ɪm-/
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Hyphenation: em‧ploy‧ee
Rhymes: -iː

Noun

employee (plural employees)

An individual who provides labor to a company or another person.
- 1905, Baroness Emmuska Orczy, chapter 2, in The Hocussing of Cigarette‎:
  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.
One way to encourage your employees to work harder is by giving them incentives.

Hypernyms

worker

Holonyms

business, company

Derived terms

business-to-employee
employee benefit
employee handbook

Related terms

employée
employer
employment

Translations

individual who provides labor to a company or another person

Arabic: مُوَظَّف‎ m (muwaẓẓaf), مُوَظَّفَة‎ f (muwaẓẓafa)
Armenian: աշխատող (hy) (ašxatoł), աշխատակից (hy) (ašxatakicʿ)
Azerbaijani: əməkdaş (az)
Belarusian: супрацо́ўнік m (supracóŭnik), супрацо́ўніца f (supracóŭnica)
Bulgarian: слу́жещ (bg) m (slúžešt), слу́жеща (bg) f (slúžešta)
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
Dutch: bediende (nl) m or f, werknemer (nl) m, werkneemster (nl) f, medewerker (nl) m, medewerkster (nl) f,
Esperanto: dungito (eo)
Finnish: virkailija (fi), 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) c (ypállilos)
Hebrew: שָׂכִיר‎ (he) m (sachír), 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 (kk) (qyzmetker)
Korean: 직원(職員) (ko) (jigwon), 종업원(從業員) (ko) (jong'eobwon)
Kurdish:
Northern Kurdish: karker (ku) m or f
Latin: conductus m, mercēnnārius m
Luxembourgish: Employé m
Macedonian: вработен m (vraboten), работник m (rabotnik), службеник m (službenik)
Malay: pekerja (ms)
Malayalam: ജീവനക്കാരൻ (ml) (jīvanakkāraṉ), തൊഴിലാളി (ml) (toḻilāḷi)
Manx: failleydagh m, obbree m
Middle English: servaunt
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)
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: запосленик m, послопримац m, радник m, радница f
Roman: zaposlenik (sh) m, posloprimac (sh) m, radnik (sh) m, radnica (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, empleyado
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)
Vietnamese: nhân viên (vi) (人員)
Volapük: vobükäb
Walloon: eployî (wa) m