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Employees Pronunciation
Employees is pronounced em-PLOY-eez, IPA /ɛmˈplɔɪiz/.
em-PLOY-eez
US /ɛmˈplɔɪiz/ · UK /ɛmˈplɔɪiːz/
Syllables: em · PLOY · eez (3 syllables, stress on syllable 2)
noun (plural of employee): People who are paid to work for a company or an organisation.
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Employees in a Sentence
- The firm has forty employees.
- All employees must sign the form.
- Employees get a discount in the shop.
Common Mispronunciations of Employees
Not em-PLOY-erz
An employee is paid and an employer pays, and only the ending tells the two apart.
Not EM-ploy-eez
PLOY takes the volume, and the eez at the close keeps a full long ee of its own.
Tip: An ee ending marks the person something is done to, which is why a trainee is trained and a payee is paid.
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