What's the difference between employee and underling?

Employee


Definition:

  • (n.) One employed by another.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Keep it in the ground campaign Though they draw on completely different archives, leaked documents, and interviews with ex-employees, they reach the same damning conclusion: Exxon knew all that there was to know about climate change decades ago, and instead of alerting the rest of us denied the science and obstructed the politics of global warming.
  • (2) The leak also included the script for an in-house Sony Pictures recruitment video and performance reviews for hundreds employees.
  • (3) Compared to the data produced by the Lipid Research Clinics (USA), coronary risk appeared higher for all the surveyed factors in the Italian general population, and particularly in bank employees.
  • (4) An employee's career advancement, professional development, monetary remuneration and self-esteem often may depend upon the final outcome of the process.
  • (5) July 7, 2016 Verified account A blue tick that tells you the user is either an A-list celebrity, a respected authority on an important subject or a BuzzFeed employee.
  • (6) For Bush Sr, the dilemma is all the more agonising as some of the White House advisers he now criticises are former employees he bequeathed to his son.
  • (7) "Due to much higher housing costs, one in seven of London's employees receives wages which are below the poverty threshold," says Mr Livingstone.
  • (8) "Organisations that have employees that sleep better perform better in the marketplace.
  • (9) Male employees were more often positive than females (7.0% vs. 4.4%).
  • (10) Characteristics of the back injury and employee-related factors associated with back injury are presented in two subsequent articles.
  • (11) Nobody knows how often it happens but judging just from my inbox, it’s certainly not a rare occurrence and what struck me as I started to learn about the issue of health privacy is that employees are defenseless against things like this happening to them.” Fei said that she also received her fair share of emails saying: “What makes you think your baby was entitled to million dollars worth of care?
  • (12) It’s good stuff.” Opening markets to US-made products overseas is one of the better things that could happen for US small business and their employees, said Obama.
  • (13) A comparison of different age groups of employees in two occupations reveals that carpenters in the age group 30-40 years have more than ten times as many musculoskeletal disorders in their arms and hands as office workers in the same age group.
  • (14) A survey, employing the Community Periodontal Index of Treatment Needs (CPITN), was conducted among 344 employees of a Jerusalem hospital.
  • (15) Of interest here is the "synergy" in patterns of program adoption between employee assistance programs (EAPs) and health promotion activities (HPAs).
  • (16) Companies sometimes agree to pay for activities such as union-provided training for employees.
  • (17) The standardised mortality ratios were 889 (six deaths) in employees monitored for contamination by tritium, 254 (nine deaths) in those monitored for contamination by other radionuclides, and 385 (nine deaths) in those with dosimeter readings totalling more than 50 mSv (5 rem); but the same nine subjects tended to account for each of these significantly raised ratios.
  • (18) These incentives provided employees with evidence of tangible support for continuing education.
  • (19) Speaking in a debate in Westminster Hall on Tuesday, Kawczynski said: "What these employees are being told, some of whom have worked for the organisation for many years, is that if they do not set up their own companies and invoice the BBC through these companies, their contracts will be terminated.
  • (20) At the hearing, committee chairman Senator Patrick Leahy, praised the secret service as "wise, very professional men and women", and called it shocking that so many of the agency's employees were involved in the scandal.

Underling


Definition:

  • (n.) An inferior person or agent; a subordinate; hence, a mean, sorry fellow.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) So far the Republican primary has spoiled us, from Rick Perry's "oops" to corporate asset-stripper Mitt Romney's admission that he liked firing people, delivered just before he was snapped apparently receiving a sit-down shoe-shine from an underling – not a good look for a would-be man of the people.
  • (2) Far better then, for the movie, to give Roper a billionaire’s island in the sun with a palatial Gatsby -style villa at its centre and a sprinkling of cottages for his underlings and protectors.
  • (3) I am not going to punish you, I just want you to explain to the people and me how do I show off?” asks Kadyrov, who routinely posts photos to his Instagram account of him beating underlings in mixed martial-arts fights, hosting celebrities and other high-profile visitors, and cavorting with his collection of exotic animals.
  • (4) David Cameron doesn't seem to be a sweary type; he doesn't blowtorch underlings or kick the copying machines in the style of Gordon Brown – but there will have been ructions on receipt of those latest migration figures from the Office for National Statistics .
  • (5) The task for Carney is to know when to overrule his underlings.
  • (6) On-set, male actors can scream abuse at underlings and have it passed off as being “driven”; making Wall Street, an unwitting Young had a sign reading “cunt” stuck to her back by Sheen.
  • (7) 'When we were at the Post he was a kind of legendary figure and I was a little underling,' remembers Malcolm Gladwell.
  • (8) Read more Industrial production figures on Friday showed that Greek output fell 4% during May, compared with 0.4% growth in April, underling how far and fast the economy slumped as the debate over a creditor bailout dragged on.
  • (9) This was corroborated when NSA director Keith Alexander and others, under great pressure to justify their (illegal) “bulk” collection of metadata, pressed underlings to produce 54 examples to prove that “total information awareness” type collection “worked” to identify and stop real terrorism, only to have the proffered NSA examples fall apart under scrutiny, leaving only one flimsy case of a taxi driver in San Diego who had donated a few thousand dollars to al-Shabab-connected Somalians.
  • (10) I suppose he thinks getting on the airwaves to big up the HMRC list counts as Being Seen To Be Doing Something, as do his underlings in the Revenue themselves.
  • (11) Henry VIII (Jonathan Rhys Meyers) Irishing around Hampton Court like a bearded love-tank, while trembling underlings hide from lines such as "I love your neck" and "That's my crown".
  • (12) Instead, he became "the most influential underling in Washington", as Mann writes in his book.
  • (13) Variability of fusimotor system tonus is probably the neurological mechanism underling these phenomena.
  • (14) Lower down the scale one could cite the quotidian grumbling in workplaces across the land from underlings hamstrung by their less competent bosses – a tendency observed by Richard Sennett among others, though we can surely all supply examples.
  • (15) "The man is a hero," whispers an underling as Hardy (Kevin Bacon) points at a map and sighs, maverickly.
  • (16) The authors present their casuistry about surgical treatment of the herniated lumbar disc, operated during the period from 1979-1983, underling the utility of the operating field without blood, obtainable with particulare prone position of the patient, also called "egg position", with controlled hypotension, which allow a complete vision without wide hemilaminectomie.
  • (17) Much more often, Heywood’s exact contribution to government policies and decisions is the subject of rumour and counter-rumour, of briefings by underlings and allies and enemies.
  • (18) We were taken into a room where our bags were rummaged through by underlings, the gravity of the situation underlined by just how scared the rebel fighters themselves appeared to be.
  • (19) A key part of this is Sundar Pichai.” Married with two children, Pichai projects the image of a passionate nerd, but without any of the sociopathic egotism that plagues Silicon Valley executives (and their underlings).
  • (20) Pinkston said: “I imagine because of his marriage ties he will probably just get permanent house arrest, but his underlings and confidants and ‘co-conspirators’ may not be so lucky.” Two of Jang’s close aides are believed to have been executed recently.