employee
[noun]
Synonyms: worker, hand, job-holder, staff member, wage-earner, workman

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English Thesaurus: worker, employee, member of staff/staff member, colleague, workforce, ...

[TahlilGaran] English Synonym Dictionary ▲

em‧ploy‧ee S2 W2 /ɪmˈplɔɪ-iː, ˌemplɔɪˈiː/ noun [countable]
[Word Family: noun: employee, employer, employment ≠ unemployment, unemployed, employ; adjective: employed ≠ unemployed, employable ≠ unemployable; verb: employ]
someone who is paid to work for someone else Synonym : worker:
a government employee

[TahlilGaran] Dictionary of Contemporary English ▲

employee
noun
ADJ. salaried | full-time, part-time | permanent, temporary | retired | junior, senior | key | long-serving, loyal | potential, prospective | manual | skilled, unskilled | blue-collar, white-collar
VERB + EMPLOYEE have The company has only 60 employees.
recruit | dismiss, lay off, make redundant, sack a fair reason for dismissing an employee The company made hundreds of employees redundant.
EMPLOYEE + VERB join sth | work employees who work more than 20 hours per week
leave | earn sth
EMPLOYEE + NOUN benefits In addition to a competitive salary, the company offers attractive employee benefits.
status Freelance workers do not enjoy the benefits of employee status.
relations

[TahlilGaran] Collocations Dictionary ▲

employee

a full-time/part-time employee
We now have 110 full-time employees.
a permanent/temporary employee
Some of the temporary employees were later hired as permanent staff.
a senior/junior employee
The company also offers substantial bonuses to senior employees.
a male/female employee
The majority of the female employees are under 30.
a former employee
The company is being sued by three former employees.
a retired employee
They are for an increase in pension payments to retired employees.
have employees
The Birmingham-based company has over 200 employees.
recruit employees (=offer them jobs)
We are recruiting employees for our IT division.
lay off employees (=stop employing them because there is no work for them to do)
Unions fear that many part-time employees will be laid off.
make employees redundant (=stop employing them because there is no work for them to do)
Crossways was nearing bankruptcy and had to make 720 employees redundant.
dismiss/sack an employee (=stop employing them because they have behaved badly or broken a rule)
Seven employees were dismissed for misconduct.
an employee joins a company/firm etc
Employees who join the firm after April receive a percentage of the annual bonus.
an employee leaves
When a senior employee leaves the company, we hold an exit interview.

[TahlilGaran] Collocations Dictionary ▲

worker someone who does a particular type of job, or someone who works for an organization but is not a manager:
a post-office worker
The workers are threatening to go on strike.
The report shows that male manual workers earn twice as much as female workers.
employee someone who has a job, especially a permanent job, with a particular company or organization:
Employees of the airline get generous reductions on the cost of flights.
member of staff/staff member one of the people who work for a company, organization, school etc - used especially in official contexts:
Training opportunities are available to all members of staff.
Several staff members complained about his increasing strange behaviour.
colleague (also coworker especially American English) someone you work with – use this especially about people who do professional jobs in offices, schools etc:
I’d like you to meet a colleague of mine, Jean-Michel Blanc.
What should you do if a co-worker is injured?
workforce all the people that work in a country, industry, or large organization:
Women make up 41% of the workforce.
staff all the people who work in a company, organization, school etc:
The staff were clearly worried about rumours of job losses.
sales staff

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