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Servant vs Employee - What's the difference?

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As nouns the difference between servant and employee

is that servant is one who is hired to perform regular household or other duties, and receives compensation. As opposed to a slave while employee is an individual who provides labor to a company or another person.

As a verb servant

is to subject.

servant

English

Alternative forms

* servaunt (obsolete) * (obsolete)

Noun

(en noun)
  • One who is hired to perform regular household or other duties, and receives compensation. As opposed to a slave.
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  • *:As a political system democracy seems to me extraordinarily foolish, but I would not go out of my way to protest against it. My servant is, so far as I am concerned, welcome to as many votes as he can get. I would very gladly make mine over to him if I could.
  • One who serves another, providing help in some manner.
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  • Derived terms

    * assigned servant * civil servant * manservant * maidservant * public servant * servantly

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (obsolete) To subject.
  • (Shakespeare)
    (Webster 1913)

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    employee

    English

    Alternative forms

    * employe *

    Noun

    (wikipedia employee) (en noun)
  • An individual who provides labor to a company or another person.
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  • , title= , chapter=2 citation , passage=No one, however, would have anything to do with him, as Mr. Keeson's orders in those respects were very strict ; he had often threatened any one of his employés with instant dismissal if he found him in company with one of these touts.}}
    One way to encourage your employees to work harder is by giving them incentives .

    See also

    * payroll * taxes * work English words suffixed with -ee