Employee
[emplɒɪ'iː;em'plɒɪiː;ɪm-] or [ɪm'plɔɪi]
Definition
(n.) One employed by another.
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Unserious Contents or Definition
To see one of your employees denotes crosses and disturbances if he assumes a disagreeable or offensive attitude. If he is pleasant and has communications of interest, you will find no cause for evil or embarrassing conditions upon waking.
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Examples
- A shop fully equipped with electric machinery is the best possible kind of shop for employee as well as for the owner. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- Stephenson now changed his position from that of an employee of coal-owners to that of employer of many miners himself. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- Samuel Slater, a former employee of Arkwright, introduced it to Rhode Island in 1789, and built a great cotton mill there in 1793. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- In some employments color blindness in an employee would be fatal to many lives. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- Then, with the help of some Italian employee, he succeeded in finding out where the other three busts had gone. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- Some of the office employees would also drop in once in a while, and as everybody present was always welcome to partake of the midnight meal, we all enjoyed these gatherings. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Many of these are quite large, and at least one-third of them require one additional helper, thus adding, say, 33,000 employees to the number already mentioned. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Babylon was full of Aramean traders, who had great establishments, with slaves, freed-men, employees of all sorts. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- The newsboy found an old hand-press and began to print a paper himself, called the _Grand Trunk Herald_, and sold it to the employees and regular passengers on his line. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- The men who finally select these goods are the oldest and most trusted employees of the firm. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- As it was, not only Edison, but all the company's directors, officers, and employees, were kept busy exhibiting and explaining the light. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- They had 7,900 employees, and 2,250 refrigerating cars were employed for the transportation of their products. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- Arm and put in the trenches your quartermaster employees, citizens, etc. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- Before the present system was installed about 1,100 employees were required in this department, working a nine-hour day to build 1,000 motors. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- The factory service office houses a department which is responsible for the well-being of factory employees. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- Andrews, containing suggestions as to future stations, part of which related to the various employees and their duties. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- The whole concern seemed like a hospital of invalid employees. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- In case he retired or failed, he could transfer his 'right,' and employees were constantly on the alert for purchasable rights, which could be disposed of at a profit. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
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