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also employe
as in worker
one who works for another for wages or a salary
an employer who was loved and admired by generations of employees
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Recent Examples of employee
By the end of the hourslong raid at Nutrition Bar Confectioners in Cato, a rural community about 30 miles northwest of Syracuse, dozens of employees had been detained.
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Hanna Park, CNN Money, 6 Sep. 2025
The federal government has shed some 97,000 jobs since the beginning of the year, and government payrolls are expected to shrink further in the coming months when severance payments to employees who took buyouts end.
—Scott Horsley, NPR, 5 Sep. 2025
And one former Dunder Mifflin employee is making his comeback ...
—Rebecca Aizin, PEOPLE, 5 Sep. 2025
Managers are increasingly opting to retrain their employees rather than axing them.
—semafor.com, 5 Sep. 2025
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Hanna Park, CNN Money, 6 Sep. 2025
The federal government has shed some 97,000 jobs since the beginning of the year, and government payrolls are expected to shrink further in the coming months when severance payments to employees who took buyouts end.
—Scott Horsley, NPR, 5 Sep. 2025
And one former Dunder Mifflin employee is making his comeback ...
—Rebecca Aizin, PEOPLE, 5 Sep. 2025
Managers are increasingly opting to retrain their employees rather than axing them.
—semafor.com, 5 Sep. 2025
See All Example Sentences for employee
Recent Examples of Synonyms for employee
worker
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Rural farmers could receive payments, urban workers could send money home and millions joined the formal economy for the first time.—
Cornelia C. Walther,
Forbes.com,
16 Sep. 2025
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It’s gotten so bad that, in one of the largest H-2A criminal cases ever, a federal judge described the abuse of these workers as a form of modern-day slavery.—
Max Blau,
ProPublica,
16 Sep. 2025
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“Employee.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/employee. Accessed 16 Sep. 2025.
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