Hirees

Part of speech: noun

Definitions

1. A person who has been employed or engaged by a company or organization to perform specific tasks or responsibilities
2. An individual who is newly recruited or brought into a workforce under a contractual agreement for work
3. Someone who has accepted a position offered by an employer, typically for remuneration or a salary

Etymology: "Hirees" is the plural of "hiree", which English built from the verb "hire" and the suffix "-ee". That suffix, inherited through Middle English from Old French and ultimately from Latin "-atus", marks the person on the receiving end of an action, as in "employee" or "trainee". So a hiree is the one who has been hired: the person who has accepted the job, rather than the one doing the hiring. The pattern is simple but productive. Once English had "-ee" meaning "one who is acted upon", it could attach that ending to almost any transitive verb, and "hiree" follows the same logic as "employee", the person employed. The plural simply adds the usual "-s" to make "hirees", the people who have taken up the offered positions.

Synonyms: employees, workers, staff, recruits, appointees

Antonyms: employers, bosses, managers, supervisors