employés

employees

noun ahm-plwah-YEH Rare

Usage Note

Employés is a French plural gallicism used in Italian historical and bureaucratic texts to mean office workers or employees. The standard Italian equivalent is impiegati. Its use in Italian prose signals a 19th-century or early-20th-century Francophile administrative register.

Examples

"Gli employés dell'ufficio scioperarono per i diritti."

Natural Translation

The office employees went on strike for their rights.

Literal Translation

The employees of-the office went-on-strike for the rights.

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