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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
Vince has an estranged adult daughter; Jake is an absentee father to a young son; Jake is partnered in his restaurant with a big celebrity; both brothers used to be rock stars; a former restaurant employee has an axe to grind with Jake.
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Kelly Lawler, USA Today, 18 Sep. 2025
Under Portland's sanctuary policy, city employees, including police officers, do not enforce federal immigration law.
—Michael Dorgan, FOXNews.com, 18 Sep. 2025
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.
—Hanna Park, CNN Money, 6 Sep. 2025
A day later, the Trump administration put many of the employees who signed their names on the letter on indefinite administrative leave.
—Khaleda Rahman, MSNBC Newsweek, 6 Sep. 2025
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Kelly Lawler, USA Today, 18 Sep. 2025
Under Portland's sanctuary policy, city employees, including police officers, do not enforce federal immigration law.
—Michael Dorgan, FOXNews.com, 18 Sep. 2025
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.
—Hanna Park, CNN Money, 6 Sep. 2025
A day later, the Trump administration put many of the employees who signed their names on the letter on indefinite administrative leave.
—Khaleda Rahman, MSNBC Newsweek, 6 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 19 Sep. 2025.
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