Noun

(wikipedia employee) (en noun)

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

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

Noun

(en noun)

A loyal servant of another, usually a more powerful being.

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A sycophantic follower.

(obsolete) A loved one; one highly esteemed and favoured.

* Sylvester

God's disciple and his dearest minion

* William Shakespeare, Timon of Athens , IV-III

Is this the Athenian minion whom the world / Voiced so regardfully?

(obsolete) An ancient form of ordnance with a calibre of about three inches.

(Beaumont and Fletcher)

(typography, uncountable) A size of type smaller than brevier but larger than nonpareil, roughly equivalent to 7pt.

(Burton)