单词 | employee |
释义 | employeen.1 1. A person who works for an employer; spec. a person employed for wages or a salary under an employment contract, esp. at non-executive level. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > worker > workers according to conditions > [noun] > employee employé1811 workhand1821 employe1835 employee1850 employée1862 permanent1863 staff1931 perm1945 staffer1950 hire1954 1814 Morning Post 7 Dec. Baron De Reck..has not permitted the slightest change of persons under him, and all the Saxon employees remain in office. 1819 Morning Post 31 July In Rome..as in all the nations upon earth, the employees far outnumbered the employers. 1850 L. H. Garrard Wah-to-Yah xii. 172 Horses and mules..were here herded, by their employees. 1891 Pall 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. 1909 Daily Chron. 15 Dec. 1/3 The employee shares in the company are 50,000 of £1 each. 1928 Britain's Industr. Future (Liberal Industr. Inq.) iii. 141 The stimulation of employee-ownership under schemes of profit-sharing and investment by employees. 1977 C. Maclean St Kilda (ed. 2) iii. 28 The steward or factor, as he came to be known, was an employee of MacLeod acting purely on his behalf. 1996 Employment Rights Act c. 18 §230 (4) In this Act ‘employer’, in relation to an employee or a worker, means the person by whom the employee or worker is (or, where the employment has ceased, was) employed. 2012 Independent 17 Aug. 55/3 If I receive my ATT (Association of Taxation Technicians) qualification at the end of the two years, PwC will take me on as an employee. ΚΠ 1886 A. Morgan in Literary World (Boston) 15 May 172/1 The supines of Shakespeare outnumber the employees of most authors. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2014; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.11814 |
随便看 |
英语词典包含1132095条英英释义在线翻译词条,基本涵盖了全部常用单词的英英翻译及用法,是英语学习的有利工具。