Crossword clues for employee
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
employee
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a prospective employee
▪ A good pension scheme is the benefit most prospective employees look for.
new member/employee/student etc
▪ training for new employees
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
federal
▪ But the largest part of the permanent government is the bureaucracy, which has about three million federal civilian employees.
▪ And, unlike federal employees, they have no guarantee of pay for lost time.
▪ It eliminates the one-year waiting period for federal employees.
▪ For example, a federal employee who was thinking of buying a new car is going to postpone that decision.
▪ Only 13 percent of top federal employees said they would recommend a career in public service.
▪ He remains a federal employee and is handling preparations for the upcoming meeting of the seven major industrial nations.
female
▪ Once he ordered one of the directors to leave a female employee alone.
▪ As luck would have it, two of the female employees in the department were pregnant.
▪ Sheila Redmond is also looking at the possibility of arranging talks on the menopause for female employees.
▪ Ultimately, they were assured of a cheap and exploitable labor force through the constant turnover of young, female employees.
▪ Male and female employees were represented by separate union locals until 1977.
▪ That interpretation was widely viewed as favoring business over minority and female employees attempting to charge job discrimination.
▪ A female employee is known to associate after work with a sexually active crowd of young people.
new
▪ When I meet a prospective new employee they often seem more concerned with their job title than they do with their salary.
▪ Companies have always trained new employees.
▪ What do I check if I've got a new employee?
▪ More and more, new employees are recruited to Hanes from other companies.
▪ However, in general, new employees receive some elements of the expenses package given to existing staff.
▪ Long-term experience in a company allows one to evoke stories and myths as a way of controlling the behavior of newer employees.
▪ Whatever the circumstances an open and frank discussion must take place between the new employee and her manager at the earliest opportunity.
▪ The Disney Company has a wonderful orientation program for new employees.
public
▪ The price to pay for picking up the public asset should be respect for the pension rights of the public company employees.
▪ More than 12 million of our 15. 1 million full-time civilian public employees work for state or local government.
▪ The country has about 6m public employees of all kinds.
▪ Management fads come and go, as all public employees know.
▪ The scale and pace of technological change mean that the public as well as employees are crucially at risk.
▪ In part for this reason, in part because several public employees unions opposed any merit pay, Congress yawned.
▪ Regulations have also been discussed regarding the suspension and dismissal of public employees who do not express loyalty to General Noriega.
▪ Competition boosts the pride and morale of public employees.
■ NOUN
government
▪ It was widely believed that middle and low-level government employees accepted gifts in return for favours.
▪ The same principle applies to most of the decisions government employees make.
▪ Teachers were government employees, as everyone knew, but nobody called them servants.
▪ They claim government changes are contributing towards prison disorder. Government employees have been picketing social security offices in Oxford and Gloucester.
▪ And the forest products companies often perform this public service on public lands, under the guidance of government employees.
▪ The austerity plan was likely to involve the dismissal of thousands of government employees.
▪ In other words, the typical diplomat is much like his fellow government employee in Washington.
state
▪ The protest was held in opposition to government plans to dismiss 25,000 state employees in order to reduce fiscal spending by 42 percent.
▪ Family Eldercare also helps out-of-#state employees with concerns about aging relatives who live in Austin.
▪ Most of the early strikers were state employees.
▪ They invited state employees to voluntarily submit proposals for projects to improve performance.
▪ The presidents' men have organised counter-demonstrations, mainly consisting of unenthusiastic state employees.
▪ In 1994, the latest available national data, an average state employee in Arizona was paid $ 19, 587.
▪ This definition includes routine non-manual workers such as clerks and typists as working class, and extends to many state employees.
▪ In Jones' suit, filed in May 1994, the former Arkansas state employee claimed that then-Gov.
■ VERB
allow
▪ The redundancy payments legislation allows employees a four-week trial period in which to make up their minds.
▪ In a retreat, House leaders proposed allowing employees to return to work with pay while budget talks proceed.
▪ The second proposal would allow employees a limited amount of time off per year in return for working overtime.
▪ It also allows employees to offer testimonials on which products and services are good, Phillips said.
▪ Having a home office is necessary to allow the employee to properly perform his duties.
▪ Patagonia allows employees two months of paid and two months of unpaid leave and allows them to return gradually to work.
give
▪ His conclusion was that these groups could be turned into productive forces by giving the employees a sense of being appreciated.
▪ Finally, Preston gave employees access to a much wider range of information about the company.
▪ Pro-active means giving your employees a pay rise before the unions demand it.
▪ Many private plans also refuse to do the paperwork necessary to give employees the option of repaying their loans.
▪ The former gives the employee an option and the latter extends the situations in which the option is available.
▪ Some supervisors who would not hesitate to give an employee a warning notice never realize the value of praise.
▪ A bad interviewer can give a potentially excellent employee such a negative impression that he or she loses interest in the job.
▪ This approach gives the employees a much greater chance of being successful.
help
▪ Support - help the employees in their work. 3.
▪ Family Eldercare also helps out-of-state employees with concerns about aging relatives who live in Austin.
▪ With appropriate coaching and recognition, you can help your employees be more productive and meet these goals.
▪ Many canteens in the Wedgwood Group are taking steps to help employees change their diets for the better.
▪ Employee Development Programs help employees develop their talents and capacities through training sessions, workshops, and the like.
▪ Alternatively, you could list the ways you have helped coworkers and other employees below you during the week.
pay
▪ The total amount of contributions and tax paid by each employee is entered on the P35.
▪ He was asked to resign after pressing for cuts in retirement benefits paid out to employees of the public sector.
▪ Those contributions are normally in excess of those paid by employees.
▪ Similar problems arise in decisions about how and what to pay managers, and how and what to pay employees.
▪ More would be paid by contractors' employees in tax.
▪ Organisations may pay for just the employee and spouse to view accommodation or may make provision for children to go too.
provide
▪ Finally, the policy also aims to provide assistance to employees with other substance abuse problems.
▪ Few, however, would provide employees with any detailed information supporting their decisions.
▪ No legal aid is available to provide representation for employees.
▪ Meantime, businesses increasingly are providing employee incentives to reduce traffic.
▪ The study found that 89 percent of all companies interviewed provide assistance for an employee buying a home in the new location.
▪ Fitness, which provides employee health and exercise programs to 50 businesses in the northeast.
▪ Employee trusts Employee trusts have increased in popularity over the past decade or so as a method of providing incentives for employees.
▪ Hewlett-Packard Co., which is supplying the hardware to Ford, provides computers only to employees who need them for work.
require
▪ There was no term in their contracts entitling the employer to require that the employees move.
▪ Employers will by law be required to offer employees a choice among at least three so-called Food Benefit Plans.
▪ Typically organisations require employees to obtain two or three estimates and base their payment on the lowest one.
▪ Delicacy and tact are required for employees in this anytime / anyplace workforce.
▪ To do this, he requires information about current employees.
▪ Federal law currently requires employees who work more than 40 hours in one week to be paid overtime wages.
▪ Thus, employers are acting within their contractual rights if they require the employees to move.
work
▪ On returning to work employees are offered a position at at least the same level as their last job.
▪ The most valued individuals will be those who can work effectively with other employees in a team effort.
▪ To work with employees of the system in school improvement efforts and professional development activities.
▪ Such a formula simply cannot work for employer or employee.
▪ How much longer was she expected to work as an employee in a store?
▪ Not at all: It works well with Honda employees in nations around the globe.
▪ After working with his employees in subsequent sessions, I understood why.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
model wife/employee/student etc
▪ Afterwards she would be full of remorse and would return to playing the clean-living model student.
▪ First, she had to have earned good grades; second, she had to have been a model student.
▪ He is in other words a model student though not necessarily a good one.
▪ How is that model employee of yours?
▪ In all she was a model wife, and earned the esteem of everyone in the town.
▪ Two other girls were model students.
▪ Unlike Aung San and Sukarno he was a model student, excelling despite his marginal position.
▪ Xavier Hicks, model student, was being charged with assault with a deadly weapon and possession of a concealed weapon.
prospective employee/candidate/buyer etc
▪ Abele also will provide prospective buyers with e-mail updates of new listings that meet their criteria.
▪ In University City, some agents issue similar warnings to prospective buyers.
▪ It's putting off prospective buyers.
▪ Not only does a company interview prospective employees, the would-be employees are supposed to interview the company.
▪ Once you have a list of prospective candidates, you need to do a bit of research.
▪ Requiring drug tests of this discrete group of citizens is an intrusion, a humiliation and a subtle deterrent to prospective candidates.
▪ The élite squads work more intensively and aim to produce at least three prospective candidates in each weight division.
▪ The only way they can market their products is to produce literature detailed enough to convince the prospective buyer.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Employees of American Airlines get generous reductions on the cost of flights.
▪ a government employee.
▪ Sara gets an employee discount at Carson's.
▪ The restrooms are for employees only.
▪ We are a multi-national corporation with 140,000 employees worldwide.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ An employee needs to show that he has been in two years continuous employment.
▪ Charles Fanniel, the union president, would prefer the comfort of guaranteed jobs for his employees.
▪ It is found that receipts are stamped with a firm's name and merely initialled by a cashier or other employee.
▪ It laid off about 90 of its 170 employees.
▪ Laid-off employees, of which there have been 105 since January, each received a severance package and a computer.
▪ Now fairly standard practice across the country, the employee magazine was new to us when it was suggested.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Employee
Employee \Em`ploy*ee"\, n. [The Eng. form of employ['e].] One employed by another.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
employee
"person employed," 1850, mainly in U.S. use, from employ + -ee. Formed on model of French employé.
Wiktionary
employee
n. An individual who provides labor to a company or another person.
WordNet
employee
n. a worker who is hired to perform a job [ant: employer]
Wikipedia
Usage examples of "employee".
With a powerful thrust, Adler hurled the BGA employee clear, smashing him back into the radar console.
Israel Edel, the night clerk at the Arapahoe, and then by the employees at the Coffee Shop of the Hotel Royal-ton on the following morning.
White, clean, cluttered with utensils, family employees running back and forth with dishes and fairly tight quarters.
With a highly important air, as a man proud of being so busy, the baggageman of the train was thundering trunks at the other employees on the platform.
A few employees worked directly for the federal government, but most people were on the payroll of Bechtel, who had the facilities management contract.
Marin County for the first Sunday after the wedding, but then a Taco Tommy employee fell ill, and Blackburn had to work.
Besides salary and per diem, each Secret Service employee received a whopping twenty-five dollars for each boodler he captured.
There were more Brighter Suns employees off Vesta than on it, occupying trading stations and docking ports throughout the rest of human space.
Then, with the help of some Italian employee, he succeeded in finding out where the other three busts had gone.
Fraulino Jones became eloquent and finally persuaded Cabeza and Cuerpo to become employees.
A client canceled on me, my employees are printing pictures of me, and my dad saw it.
Court sustained unanimously the right of the National Executive to go into the federal courts and secure an injunction against striking railway employees who were interfering with interstate commerce, although it was conceded that there was no statutory basis for such action.
She was consulted about missing husbands, about the creditworthiness of potential business partners, and about suspected fraud by employees.
Now it is interesting to know that this Ginori family who founded the Doccia porcelain works were far in advance of anything we yet have done for our employees.
An employee at the Academy of Tennis of Enfield had been recruited and joined the Canadian instructor and student already inside for closer work of surveillance.