employee

employee: noun

ADJECTIVE

▪ paid, salaried

▪ full-time, part-time

▪ We have around 100 full-time employees.

▪ hourly (= paid per hour of work) (AmE)

▪ permanent

▪ seasonal (AmE), temporary

▪ retired

▪ entry-level (AmE), junior, low-level (esp. AmE)

▪ senior

▪ graduate

▪ key

▪ front-line (esp. AmE)

▪ rank-and-file (AmE)

▪ long-serving (BrE), long-time (AmE), loyal

▪ dedicated, hard-working

▪ potential, prospective

▪ new

▪ former

▪ fellow

▪ female, male

▪ manual

▪ skilled, unskilled

▪ blue-collar, white-collar

▪ non-union, union, unionized (all esp. AmE)

▪ at-will (= a worker who does not have a lot of legal rights) (AmE)

▪ civilian

▪ a civilian employee of the Army

▪ city (esp. AmE), council (BrE), federal, government, municipal (esp. AmE), public, public-sector, state

▪ airline (esp. AmE), bank, factory, hotel, postal (esp. AmE), store (esp. AmE), etc.

▪ disgruntled

▪ a disgruntled employee seeking revenge

▪ valuable

VERB + EMPLOYEE

▪ employ, have

▪ The company has only 60 employees.

▪ hire (esp. AmE), recruit

▪ the company's battle to recruit and retain employees

▪ dismiss, fire, lay off, make redundant (BrE), sack (esp. BrE), terminate (esp. AmE)

▪ a fair reason for dismissing an employee

▪ The company made hundreds of employees redundant.

▪ evaluate, screen

▪ attract

▪ The company has worked to attract older employees.

▪ retain

▪ manage

▪ motivate

▪ educate, train

▪ compensate (esp. AmE), reward

▪ pay

EMPLOYEE + VERB

▪ join sth, participate in sth

▪ work

▪ employees who work more than 20 hours per week

▪ perform (sth)

▪ employees who can perform comfortably in a highly diverse work environment

▪ leave, quit (esp. AmE)

▪ Why do my employees keep quitting?

▪ retire

▪ earn sth, get sth, receive sth

▪ complain (about sth)

▪ sue (sb)

▪ an employee who sued for unpaid overtime

EMPLOYEE + NOUN

▪ benefits

▪ In addition to a competitive salary, the company offers attractive employee benefits.

▪ status (esp. BrE)

▪ Freelance workers do not enjoy the benefits of employee status.

▪ relations

▪ retention, turnover (both esp. AmE)

▪ morale, satisfaction (both esp. AmE)

▪ performance, productivity (both esp. AmE)

▪ development, training

▪ incentive (esp. AmE)

▪ handbook (esp. AmE)

▪ base (esp. AmE)

▪ Maintaining a diverse employee base requires ongoing commitment.

▪ salaries

▪ pension (esp. AmE)

▪ The value of state employee pension plans has plunged over the past three years.

▪ discount (esp. AmE)

▪ theft (AmE)

▪ The retail industry loses $13 billion annually to employee theft.

▪ involvement, participation

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employee — em·ploy·ee or em·ploye n: a person usu. below the executive level who is hired by another to perform a service esp. for wages or salary and is under the other s control see also respondeat superior compare independent contractor ◇ In determining… … Law dictionary
employee — em‧ploy‧ee [ɪmˈplɔɪˌiː, ˌemplɔɪˈiː] noun [countable] HUMAN RESOURCES JOBS someone who is paid to work for an organization, especially someone who has a job of low rank: • A large proportion of the company s employees work outside the UK. •… … Financial and business terms
employee — has replaced employé (feminine employée) as the dominant form in BrE for someone who is employed. In AmE the alternative form is employe, pronounced as three syllables and usually stressed on the second … Modern English usage
Employee — Em ploy*ee , n. [The Eng. form of employ[ e].] One employed by another. [1913 Webster] … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
employee — person employed, 1850, mainly in U.S. use, from EMPLOY (Cf. employ) + EE (Cf. ee) … Etymology dictionary
employee — [n] person being paid for working for another or a corporation agent, apprentice, assistant, attendant, blue collar*, breadwinner*, clerk, cog*, company person, craftsperson, desk jockey*, domestic, hand, help, hired gun*, hired hand*, hireling,… … New thesaurus
employee — ► NOUN ▪ a person employed for wages or salary … English terms dictionary
employee — or employe [em ploi′ē, imploi′ē; em ploi΄ē′, imploi΄ē; em΄ploi ē′] n. [Fr employé: see EMPLOY & EE1] a person hired by another, or by a business firm, etc., to work for wages or salary … English World dictionary
employee — n. 1) to engage (esp. BE), hire (esp. AE), take on an employee 2) to dismiss, fire, sack (colloq.) an employee; (BE) to make an employee redundant 3) a government; white collar employee 4) a full time; part time employee 5) a fellow employee * *… … Combinatory dictionary
employee — A person in the service of another under any contract of hire, express or implied, oral or written, where the employer has the power or right to control and direct the employee in the material details of how the work is to be performed. Riverbend … Black's law dictionary

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