as in employes
one who works for another for wages or a salary
more jobholders than the state agency has ever had in the past
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Noun
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Store employees would celebrate news of Auburn road wins by throwing ticker tape onto power lines.—
Jordy Fee-Platt,
New York Times,
25 Oct. 2025 -
Paying the price for the company’s decisions are the 70 full-time park employees and hundreds of seasonal workers, along with the hundreds of thousands of annual guests who will have one less form of affordable entertainment.—
Shannon Pettypiece,
NBC news,
24 Oct. 2025
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The airport has put out green donation bins accepting nonperishable food and personal care items for unpaid federal airport workers, according to a social media post from Milwaukee County Executive David Crowley.—
Francesca Pica,
jsonline.com,
21 Oct. 2025
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By law, federal workers are supposed to receive back pay once the shutdown ends, but the White House has attempted to cast doubt on that, NPR's Scott Horsley tells Up First.—
NPR,
NPR,
21 Oct. 2025
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“Jobholders.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/jobholders. Accessed 28 Oct. 2025.
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