employee

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French employé. Equivalent to employ + -ee.

noun

1. An individual who provides labor to a company or another person.
   Holonyms: business, company
   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. 1905, Baroness Emmuska Orczy, chapter 2, in The Hocussing of Cigarette