employer
If any employee needs to take time off, s/he should contact the Personnel Department.任何雇员需要休假，应与人事部联系。
Annabel has been a hardworking and responsible employee.
The police want to interview every employee about the theft.警方想就盗窃案件与每位员工面谈。
We are concerned about the physical and psychological well-being of our employees.
Laws exist to stop companies exploiting their employees.法律规定禁止公司剥削其员工。

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Employees & colleagues
alum
alumna
alumnae
alumni
alumnus
compatriot
girl
goonda
hireling
homeworker
homeworking
nominee
office politics
office spouse
operative
oppo
payroll
peon
self-starter
workmate

employee | American Dictionary

employee
noun[ C ]
us/ɪmˌplɔɪˈi/
a person who is paid to work for someone else:
Some of their employees do not have insurance.

employee | Business English

employee
noun[ C ]
 HRuk /ɪmˈplɔɪiː/us
someone who is paid to work for someone else:
The number of employees in the company has trebled over the past decade.
I discussed my complaint with an employee of the bank.
have/recruit/train employeesWe have ten employees and a turnover of around £450,000.
a government/company/council employee
a full-time/part-time employee
a former/new/prospective employee
a senior/experienced employee

Examples of employee

employee
But the evidence of surveys suggests that employees frequently do not exercise much choice at all over their health plans.
Total employee numbers were reduced from 1,180 to 975.
He attributed the very modest results to the wide range of subjects taught and the near-total lack of encouragement to potential students (local authority employees).
Typically, only full-time employees are eligible for benefits.
Finally, it is in the interest of employees to have ethical care that respects them as persons - in the full moral sense of the term.
I argue here that it is reasonable to view employers as proxy decisionmakers for their employees.
Generally of more significance in a local assessment of their social standing are their lifestyle, their farming skills, the treatment of their employees and families.
Their average pension contribution per employee dropped in real terms from $2,140 in 1981 to $1,404 in 1998.
The rates of increase in the number of entrepreneurs and government employees in the rural economy are relatively small (5.8% and 5.5%, respectively).
Nevertheless, employees preferred to proceed under the workmen's compensation act, a preference dramatically shown in the experience of miners.
The participants attacked the township government, burned down 107 rooms and took more than twenty motorcycles and other property belonging to government employees.
Although increasing plan generosity and enhancing plan communication can significantly boost employees' appreciation of their retirement programs, there is a tradeoff to consider.
Effective communication programs that include financial education and interactive resources, such as projection modelers, boost employees' appreciation of their retirement plans.
Raising plan generosity also boosts employees' appreciation of their retirement program but its effect is more modest.
We also estimate how greater plan appreciation influences employees' desire to continue working for their current employers.
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Collocations withemployee

employee

These are words often used in combination with employee.

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administrative employees
Members of more modest sectors, such as minor administrative employees removed from the centres of power, gradually entered the council.
airline employee
I want to quote from another letter from an airlineemployee.
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