EMPLOYEE

employee

(noun) a worker who is hired to perform a job

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Etymology

Noun

employee (plural employees)

An individual who provides labor to a company or another person.

Hypernyms

• worker

Holonyms

• business, company

Source: Wiktionary


Em`ploy*ee", n. Etym: [The Eng. form of employé.]

Definition: One employed by another.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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Word of the Day

22 February 2025

ANALYSIS

(noun) the use of closed-class words instead of inflections: e.g., ‘the father of the bride’ instead of ‘the bride’s father’


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Coffee Trivia

Coffee has initially been a food – chewed, not sipped. Early African tribes consume coffee by grinding the berries together, adding some animal fat, and rolling the treats into tiny edible energy balls.

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