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employee orig. U.S.|ɛmplɔɪˈiː, ɛmˈplɔɪiː|
[f. employ + -ee.]
a. A person employed for wages; = employé, which it has now virtually superseded.
b. (nonce-use.) Something that is employed.
1850L. H. Garrard Wah-To-Yah xii. 172 Horses and mules..were here herded, by their employees. 1854Thoreau Walden iv. (1886) 113 They take me for an employee. 1879Tourgee Fool's Err. xxxv. 241 Their commands are..obeyed by the..employees. 1886A. Morgan in Lit. World (Boston, U.S.) 15 May 172/1 The supines of Shakespeare outnumber the employees of most authors. 1891Pall Mall Gaz. 23 Oct. 2/1 To arrange a forty-eight hour week for the few binders, while retaining the fifty-four hours for the bulk of the employees. 1906Daily Chron. 9 May 5/5 ‘I don't like this affectation of ‘employee’,’ observed Judge Addison, in the Southwark County Court. ‘I prefer English words.’ 1909Ibid. 15 Dec. 1/3 The employee shares in the company are 50,000 of {pstlg}1 each. 1928Britain's Industr. Future (Lib. Ind. Inq.) iii. 141 The stimulation of employee-ownership under schemes of profit-sharing and investment by employees. 1954J. A. C. Brown Soc. Psychol. Industry iii. 84 The supervisors of high production groups were those who were..more employee-centred.
In U.S. often written employe.
1904N.Y. Times 26 Mar. 1 Receiver Taft called the employes of the failed firm into his office. 1923Childs & Cornell Office Administr. 258 The training of a new employe. 1930Chicago Daily News 25 Aug., The first annual picnic of employes of The Daily News and their families. |