employee vs floater

floater vs employee

employee and floater both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
employee	Yes	No	No	No
floater	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, floater is a hyponym of employee; that is, floater is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than employee:

employee: a worker who is hired to perform a job
floater: an employee who is reassigned from job to job as needed

Other hyponyms of employee include barkeep, barkeeper, bartender, mixologist, clerk, company man, copyist, scribe, scrivener, copywriter, crewman, deliverer, delivery boy, deliveryman, dining-room attendant, restaurant attendant, dispatcher, dog catcher, floorwalker, shopwalker, gardener, gasman, gofer, hire, hired help, hireling, pensionary, jobholder, line worker, liveryman, office boy, organization man, porter, Pullman porter, potboy, potman, public servant, registrar, sales rep, sales representative, salesperson, sandwichman, spotter, spotter, staff member, staffer, stage technician, stagehand, stock-taker, stocktaker, sweeper, toll agent, toll collector, toll taker, toller, tollgatherer, tollkeeper, tollman, railroad man, railroader, railway man, railwayman, trainman, turncock, typist, working man, working person, workingman, workman.

employee (noun)	floater (noun)
a worker who is hired to perform a job	an insurance policy covering loss of movable property (e.g. jewelry) regardless of its location
	an object that floats or is capable of floating
	a swimmer who floats in the water
	a wanderer who has no established residence or visible means of support
	a voter who votes illegally at different polling places in the same election
	an employee who is reassigned from job to job as needed
	a debt instrument with a variable interest rate tied to some other interest rate (e.g. the rate paid by T-bills)
	spots before the eyes caused by opaque cell fragments in the vitreous humor and lens

Difference between employee and floater

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