EMPLOYEE in a Sentence

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For EMPLOYEE, below is one of 153 sentences:
Thus we have a laborer without capital and without wages, and an employer whose capital is largely his employees' wages.

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 Meanings and Examples of EMPLOYEE
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employee
 n.  worker; person who works for another in return for financial or other compensation
Classic Sentence:
1  Then, with the help of some Italian employee, he succeeded in finding out where the other three busts had gone.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In VIII. THE ADVENTURE OF THE SIX NAPOLEONS
2  As for the fourth, no one sees him, not even his adjutants, clerks, and employees.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 8: CHAPTER XIV—IN WHICH A POLICE AGENT BESTOWS TWO FISTFULS ...
3  There are, in many prisons, treacherous employees, half-jailers, half-thieves, who assist in escapes, who sell to the police an unfaithful service, and who turn a penny whenever they can.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 6: CHAPTER III—THE VICISSITUDES OF FLIGHT
4  Hinds's hotel was a very hot-bed of the propaganda; all the employees were party men, and if they were not when they came, they were quite certain to be before they went away.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 30
5  They had been nervous about the effects upon their own animals, or even upon their human employees.
Animal Farm By George Orwell
Context  Highlight   In Chapter X
6  But I'm sure you only know the lower employees, and there are crowds of them milling about here.
The Trial By Franz Kafka
Context  Highlight   In Chapter Three In the empty Courtroom - The Student - The ...
7  Thus we have a laborer without capital and without wages, and an employer whose capital is largely his employees' wages.
The Souls of Black Folk By W. E. B. Du Bois
Context  Highlight   In VIII
Example Sentence: (146 in 10 pages)
16  The company is suing a former employee.
17  Organizations have an interest in ensuring that employee motivation is high.
18  I'm not a permanent employee; I'm working here on a fixed-term contract.
19  Each employee brings his or her own psychological baggage to the workplace.
20  Their longest-serving employee is threatening to quit over pay.
21  An employee is not eligible for a redundancy payment unless he has been with the company for two years.
22  The new employee was useless and so the management got shot of him after only a week.
23  The changes may result in a greater reduction in employee numbers than we had previously expected.
24  In addition to a competitive salary, the company offers attractive employee benefits.
25  Common sense and creativity are some of the intangibles we're looking for in an employee.
26  Insistence on better working conditions by the union has resulted in fewer employee absences.
27  If my child is sick and I leave work, I'm a bad employee.
28  He extended his hand to the new employee.
29  An industrial tribunal has no jurisdiction to decide whether an employee was fairly or unfairly dismissed.
30  He is an employee of Fuji Bank.