Meanings
plural employés
- Dated spelling of employee.
Investigation subsequently showed that one of her employés had been bribed to obtain Somnos from a druggist who should be designated as disreputable.
1907, JAMA: The Journal of the American Medical Association, page 21972 more examples
A very respectable employé assured me that as many as 1000 families had in the past ten years emigrated to the Chinese side of the Amnok, which is about five miles from the town, but the neighbourhood bore a flourishing appearance, and the population was said to be still increasing.
1888, W. R. Carles, Life in Corea, Macmillan and Co., →OCLC, →OL, pages 228–229Lake Le Barge was named after Mike Le Barge, an employé of the Western Union Telegraph Company, who was employed in constructing the overland telegraph line from America to Europe (via Bering Straits) in 1867. The completion of the Atlantic Cable in 1866 put an-end to this project.
1898, Harry de Windt, Through the Gold-Fields of Alaska to Bering Straits, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC, page 76
Origin
- Frenchemployé
- Englishemployé
Borrowed from French employé.
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