rare exc. U.S. [f. EMPLOY + -EE.]

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  a.  = EMPLOYÉ. b. (nonce-use.) Something that is employed.

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1854.  Thoreau, Walden, 126. They take me for an employee.

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1879.  Tourgee, Fool’s Err., xxxv. 241. Their commands are … obeyed by the … employees.

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1886.  A. Morgan, in Lit. World (Boston, U.S.), 15 May, 172/1. The supines of Shakespeare outnumber the employees of most authors.

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