employ + -ee

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Pronunciation change

  • IPA (key): /ɛmplɔɪˈiː/ or /ˌɛmˈplɔɪiː/ or /(ˌ)ɪm-/
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  • Hyphenation: em‧ploy‧ee

Noun change

Singular
employee

Plural
employees

Employee is on the Academic Vocabulary List.
  1. (countable) An employee is someone who works for a company or another person.
    He is an employee of this store.
    I was declared "employee of the month" by my boss.
    I was at lunch with my fellow employees.

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