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| colleague |
a person who has the same job or employer as another. |
| employer |
An employer is a person or business that pays people to do work. |
| notice |
If someone gives notice at their job, it means that they give their employer a formal statement that says that they are going to quit. [1/4 definitions] |
| payroll |
a list of those who are to be paid by an employer and the amount of money due to each. [1/2 definitions] |
| pension |
money paid at regular times by a former employer to a person who has retired, or by the government to a person who is not able to work. |
| servant |
A servant is a person whose job is to clean another person's house or cook their food or do other things around their home. They get paid for their work, but they have only one employer and don't work anywhere else. Sometimes servants live somewhere in the same house as the people they work for. [1/2 definitions] |
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