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/ɪmˈplɔɪiː/ · /ˌemplɔɪˈiː/
Someone who is paid to work for a person, company, or organization.
員工 / 受雇者
複數 employees
核心畫面
The person on the receiving end of the hire: someone else pays, and this is the one whose work is being paid for. The word only exists in relation to an employer — you cannot be one on your own.
可以想成：僱用關係裡「被僱的那一頭」——有人付錢，這位就是提供勞務、領這份錢的人。這個字一定是相對的：沒有 empl…更多收起
可以想成：僱用關係裡「被僱的那一頭」——有人付錢，這位就是提供勞務、領這份錢的人。這個字一定是相對的：沒有 employer（雇主）就沒有 employee，自己接案的人叫 freelancer 或 self-employed，不算 employee。字尾的 -ee 在英文裡常表示「被…的人」，像 trainee、interviewee。原始詞典資料1 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
employeenoun/ˌɛm.plɔɪˈiː/
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A person who provides labor to a company or another person.
- One way to encourage your employees to work harder is by giving them incentives.
- No one, however, would have anything to do with him, as Mr. Keeson's orders in those respects were very strict ; he had often threatened any one of his employés with instant dismissal if he found him in company with one of these touts.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。