Home › Words › N › nonemployeenonemployeenonemployee means one who is not an employee.EtymologyFrom non- + employee.nounOne who is not an employee.e.g.“Since I was the only nonemployee in the store, I promptly outed myself as a New York Times reporter.” — 2009 July 2, Cintra Wilson, “Riches at Rainbow’s End”, in New York Times:Definitions & examples from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 3.0).