employees

noun

variants also employes
plural of employee
as in workers
one who works for another for wages or a salary an employer who was loved and admired by generations of employees

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Recent Examples of employees According to local media reports, employees in Area A, where the laboratory is located, were instructed to shelter in place for approximately 30 minutes. — Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 29 Oct. 2026 For perspective, 41% goes to coverage of other brand-name specialty drugs taken by 6,500 employees. — Ben Smith, semafor.com, 29 Oct. 2026 Another 10,000 relate to Immigration and Customs Enforcement employees and its Homeland Security Investigations unit. — Vanessa Romo, NPR, 29 Oct. 2026 For now fashion companies are inching closer to being able to grow their businesses with the same workforce than outright replacing large groups of employees with robots. — Evan Clark, Footwear News, 28 Oct. 2026 The prison Morley escaped from has had several violent attacks between inmates and by employees in recent years. — ABC News, 28 Oct. 2026 Airport authorities had evacuated all employees and workers from the facility following Houthi threats to target the airport. — Frank Andrews, CBS News, 28 Oct. 2026 Meanwhile, several violent attacks between inmates and by employees have been reported in recent years at Northwest Correctional Complex. — Jeffrey Collins, Chicago Tribune, 27 Oct. 2026 The State Department on Wednesday ordered nonemergency government employees and their families to leave Saudi Arabia amid escalating attacks by the Houthis on Saudi infrastructure. — Miranda Jeyaretnam, Time, 22 Oct. 2026
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workers
Noun
  • But the movement has widened to include workers demanding relief from rising living costs, making the government’s task broader than resolving a dispute over university admissions.
    — Thomas Adamson, Los Angeles Times, 27 Oct. 2026
  • Also according to the emergency service, consecutive Russian strikes on a shopping center in Kharkiv injured four people late on Saturday, including three rescue workers.
    — Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 26 Oct. 2026
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