different between employee vs staffless

English

Alternative forms

• employe (dated)
• employé (dated)

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French employé. Equivalent to employ +? -ee.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?mpl???i?/, /??m?pl??i?/, /(?)?m-/

• Rhymes: -i?

Noun

employee (plural employees)

1. An individual who provides labor to a company or another person.

   One way to encourage your employees to work harder is by giving them incentives.

Hypernyms

• worker

Holonyms

• business, company

Related terms

• employée
• employer
• employment

Translations

See also

• payroll
• taxes
• work

English

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /?stæfl?s/

Etymology

staff +? -less

Adjective

staffless (not comparable)

1. Without employees; unstaffed.
2. Without a staff, or walking-stick.
   • 1989, Backpacker (volume 17, number 2, page 23)

     Picking up a good stick on the trail is usually easy […] Give it a good sling, or set it by the trailhead for the next staffless vagabond who passes by.

3. (music) Without the use of staves in its notation.
4. (of runes) Without vertical staves.

Synonyms

• (without musical staves): staveless
• (without runic staves): staveless