"employee" | Definition and Related Words

employee

Noun

A worker who is hired to perform a job (synset 110073616)
is a type of: worker - a person who works at a specific occupation
subtypes:
- barkeep, barkeeper, barman, bartender, mixologist - an employee who mixes and serves alcoholic drinks at a bar
- clerk - an employee who performs clerical work (e.g., keeps records or accounts)
- company man - an employee whose first loyalty is to the company rather than to fellow workers
- copyist, scribe, scrivener - someone employed to make written copies of documents and manuscripts
- copywriter - a person employed to write advertising or publicity copy
- crewman - a member of a work crew
- deliverer, delivery boy, deliveryman - someone employed to make deliveries
- dining-room attendant, restaurant attendant - someone employed to provide service in a dining room
- dispatcher - employee of a transportation company who controls the departures of vehicles according to weather conditions and in the interest of efficient service
- dog catcher - an employee of a municipal pound who is hired to round up stray dogs and cats
- floater - an employee who is reassigned from job to job as needed
- floorwalker, shopwalker - an employee of a retail store who supervises sales personnel and helps with customer problems
- gardener - someone employed to work in a garden
- gasman - someone employed by a gas company
- gofer - an employee whose duties include running errands
- hire - a newly hired employee
- hired help - employee hired for domestic or farm work (often used in the singular to refer to several employees collectively)
- hireling, pensionary - a person who works only for money
- jobholder - an employee who holds a regular job
- line worker - an employee who works on an assembly line
- liveryman - a worker in a livery stable
- office boy - a young man who is employed to do odd jobs in a business office
- organization man - an employee who sacrifices his own individuality for the good of an organization
- porter, pullman porter - a railroad employee who assists passengers (especially on sleeping cars)
- potboy, potman - a worker in an inn or public house who serves customers and does various chores
- public servant - someone who holds a government position (either by election or appointment)
- registrar - a person employed to keep a record of the owners of stocks and bonds issued by the company
- sales rep, sales representative, salesperson - a person employed to represent a business and to sell its merchandise (as to customers in a store or to customers who are visited)
- sandwichman - a person with advertising boards hanging from the shoulders
- spotter - a worker employed to apply spots (as markers or identifiers)
- spotter - a worker employed at a dry-cleaning establishment to remove spots
- staff member, staffer - an 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, stagehand - an employee of a theater who performs work involved in putting on a theatrical production
- stock-taker, stocktaker - an employee whose job is to take inventory
- sweeper - an employee who sweeps (floors or streets etc.)
- toll agent, toll collector, toll taker, toller, tollgatherer, tollkeeper, tollman - someone employed to collect tolls
- railroad man, railroader, railway man, railwayman, trainman - an employee of a railroad
- turncock - one employed to control water supply by turning water mains on and off
- typist - someone paid to operate a typewriter
- working man, working person, workingman, workman - an employee who performs manual or industrial labor

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