employees
USem-ploy-EEZ/ˌɛmplɔɪˈiz/
- 1Plural of employee.
Several employees raised concerns about the new schedule.
The factory laid off forty employees after the merger.
Note
A regular plural, built by simply adding -s, so it takes a plural verb and counts easily: forty employees, several employees. The trap is the apostrophe. For something that belongs to many workers, write employees' (the employees' lounge). Employee's, with the apostrophe before the s, belongs to just one person. The two sound alike, so only the spelling tells the reader how many people are meant.
employees is a form of employee
employee, noun: A person hired to work for pay for a company, organization, or individual. Full entry
- Forms
- employeeemployees plural
- Spelling
- employee → employees: add -s
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