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employee

noun
/ˌɛm.plɔɪˈiː/

Etymology

From employ + -ee. First attested in the early 19th century, possibly modeled after French employé.

  1. derived from employé

Definitions

  1. A person who provides labor to a company or another person.

    • One way to encourage your employees to work harder is by giving them incentives.
    • No one, however, would have anything to do with him, as Mr. Keeson's orders in those respects were very strict ; he had often threatened any one of his employés with instant dismissal if he found him in company with one of these touts.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at employee. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at employee. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

9 hops · closes at employee

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA