employé

See also: employe

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French employé.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ɒmˈplɔɪeɪ/, /ˌɒmplɔɪˈeɪ/, /(ˌ)ɒ̃-/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˌɑmˈplɔɪeɪ/, /ˌɑmplɔɪˈeɪ/
• Homophone: employée

Noun

employé (plural employés)

1. (dated) Synonym of employee.

   Hyponym: employée

   • 1888, W. R. Carles, Life in Corea‎^[1], Macmillan and Co., →OCLC, →OL, pages 228–229:

     A very respectable employé assured me that as many as 1000 families had in the past ten years emigrated to the Chinese side of the Amnok, which is about five miles from the town, but the neighbourhood bore a flourishing appearance, and the population was said to be still increasing.

   • 1898, Harry de Windt, Through the Gold-Fields of Alaska to Bering Straits‎^[2], London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC, page 76:

     Lake Le Barge was named after Mike Le Barge, an employé of the Western Union Telegraph Company, who was employed in constructing the overland telegraph line from America to Europe (via Bering Straits) in 1867. The completion of the Atlantic Cable in 1866 put an-end to this project.

   • 1907, JAMA: The Journal of the American Medical Association, page 2197:

     Investigation subsequently showed that one of her employés had been bribed to obtain Somnos from a druggist who should be designated as disreputable.

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:employé.

French

Etymology

See employer

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɑ̃.plwa.je/

• Audio; “un employé”:

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Noun

employé m (plural employés, feminine employée)

1. employee

   Coordinate term: employeur

2. nonmanagerial worker

   Coordinate term: cadre

Derived terms

• employé de bureau, employé de maison

Participle

employé (feminine employée, masculine plural employés, feminine plural employées)

1. past participle of employer

Further reading

• “employé”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.