employee
Other forms: employees
An employee is someone who's hired to do a particular job for pay. If you like to shop in a certain store, you might also enjoy being an employee there.
You can see the verb employ, meaning "put to use," in employee. You can employ a pen in writing a letter, just as a grocery store might employ workers to collect the shopping carts from the parking lot. A person who is put to work is an employee. Employee implies that the worker reports to a boss, and it's most commonly used for non-executives who work for a salary.
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a worker who is hired to perform a jobantonyms:employera person or firm that employs workerstypes:barkeep, barkeeper, barman, bartender, mixologistan employee who mixes and serves alcoholic drinks at a barclerkan employee who performs clerical work (e.g., keeps records or accounts)company manan employee whose first loyalty is to the company rather than to fellow workerscopywritera person employed to write advertising or publicity copycrewmana member of a work crewdispatcheremployee of a transportation company who controls the departures of vehicles according to weather conditions and in the interest of efficient servicedog catcheran employee of a municipal pound who is hired to round up stray dogs and catsfloateran employee who is reassigned from job to job as neededfloorwalker, shopwalkeran employee of a retail store who supervises sales personnel and helps with customer problemsgardenersomeone employed to work in a gardengasmansomeone employed by a gas companygoferan employee whose duties include running errandshirea newly hired employeehired helpemployee hired for domestic or farm work (often used in the singular to refer to several employees collectively)jobholderan employee who holds a regular jobline workeran employee who works on an assembly lineliverymana worker in a livery stableoffice boya young man who is employed to do odd jobs in a business officeorganization manan employee who sacrifices his own individuality for the good of an organizationpublic servantsomeone who holds a government position (either by election or appointment)registrara person employed to keep a record of the owners of stocks and bonds issued by the companysales rep, sales representative, salespersona person employed to represent a business and to sell its merchandise (as to customers in a store or to customers who are visited)sandwichmana person with advertising boards hanging from the shouldersspottera worker employed to apply spots (as markers or identifiers)spottera worker employed at a dry-cleaning establishment to remove spotsstaff member, stafferan employee who is a member of a staff of workers (especially a member of the staff that works for the President of the United States)stage technician, stagehandan employee of a theater who performs work involved in putting on a theatrical productionsweeperan employee who sweeps (floors or streets etc.)toll agent, toll collector, toll taker, toller, tollgatherer, tollkeeper, tollmansomeone employed to collect tollsturncockone employed to control water supply by turning water mains on and offtypistsomeone paid to operate a typewriterworking man, working person, workingman, workmanan employee who performs manual or industrial laborexcavatora workman who excavates for foundations of buildings or for quarryingbarmaida female bartenderbrakemana railroad employee responsible for a train's brakesbusboy, waiter's assistanta restaurant attendant who sets tables and assists waiters and clears away dirty dishescaptain, headwaiter, maitre d', maitre d'hotela dining-room attendant who is in charge of the waiters and the seating of customerscoalmansomeone who delivers coalfullera workman who fulls (cleans and thickens) freshly woven cloth for a livinggas fittera workman who installs and repairs gas fixtures and appliancesgrocery boya delivery boy for groceriesgroundkeeper, groundskeeper, groundsmansomeone who maintains the grounds (of an estate or park or athletic field)heavera workman who heaves freight or bulk goods (especially at a dockyard)hedgera gardener who takes care of and trims hedgesicemansomeone who cuts and delivers icekitchen helphelp hired to work in the kitchenjack, laborer, labourer, manual laborersomeone who works with their hands; someone engaged in manual laborlacera workman who laces shoes or footballs or books (during binding)lathera workman who puts up lathsLudditeone of the 19th century English workmen who destroyed laborsaving machinery that they thought would cause unemploymentmilkmansomeone who delivers milkmoverworkman employed by a moving companypaperboya boy who sells or delivers newspaperspaper-pushera clerk or bureaucrat who does paperworkpastera workman who pastesroundsmana workman employed to make rounds (to deliver goods or make inspections or so on)salesmana man salespersonscratchera workman who uses a tool for scratchingsettlera clerk in a betting shop who calculates the winningsshearera workman who uses shears to cut leather or metal or textilesshipping clerkan employee who ships and receives goodssignalmana railroad employee in charge of signals and point in a railroad yardcaseworker, social worker, welfare workersomeone employed to provide social services (especially to the disadvantaged)sortera clerk who sorts things (as letters at the post office)spongera workman employed to collect spongesstampera workman whose job is to form or cut out by applying a mold or die (either by hand or by operating a stamping machine)tally clerk, tallymanone who keeps a tally of quantity or weight of goods produced or shipped or receivedtimekeepera clerk who keeps track of the hours worked by employeestouch-typista skilled typist who can type a document without looking at the keyboardutility mana workman expected to serve in any capacity when called onwettera workman who wets the work in a manufacturing processyardmanworker in a railway yardtype of:workera person who works at a specific occupation
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Vocabulary lists containing employee
Learn these words from the magazine article by Terrell Smith (Inside: Level B, Unit 6). Here are our links to the selections of "To the Rescue": Dogs at Work, How to Train a Guide Dog; The Wonder Dog, Angels in the Snow, Zlateh the Goat, The Story of Mzee and Owen, A Conflict Close to Home Here are our links to the units of Level B: Unit 1, Unit 2, Unit 3, Unit 4, Unit 5, Unit 6, Unit 7, Unit 8 Here are our links to the Inside books: Level A, Level B, Level C Here is our link to a list of academic vocabulary for Inside: Academic Vocabulary
This list is based on the USCIS's “Vocabulary for the Naturalization Interview” self-test for immigrants preparing for their citizenship interviews.
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