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  • noun UK, informal A permanent employee.

Etymologies

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Diminutive of permanent with -ie.

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Examples

  • I'm furious that ISS and MultiCor want to use lethal weapons on their hapless permie charges because they want better treatment and political freedom.

    Flash ModesittJr_LE 2004

  • At first it seems unfair, but contractors have to pay their own pension, don't have any job security, don't get paid leave, don't get sick pay or any other permie benefits.

    Army Rumour Service 2009

  • At first it seems unfair, but contractors have to pay their own pension, don't have any job security, don't get paid leave, don't get sick pay or any other permie benefits.

    Army Rumour Service 2009

  • In IT, for example (before the credit crunch), contractors would earn double or more than their permie equivalents.

    Army Rumour Service 2009

  • In IT, for example (before the credit crunch), contractors would earn double or more than their permie equivalents.

    Army Rumour Service 2009

  • It's all too easy to obtain an 'online agreement in principle' only to find that, after a nerve wracking two weeks wait, you're rejected when the underwriter realises you are not a permie or asks you to show accounts (which clearly won't reflect what you truly earn - otherwise you need a new accountant!!)

    Bytestart 2009

  • Australian rain or mould or possums could leave you empty-handed the first year, but your new permie persimmon friends will almost certainly forgive you, and the creative thinking required to succeed will make for some good Autumn memories.

    Permaculture Research Institute of Australia 2009

  • In IT, for example (before the credit crunch), contractors would earn double or more than their permie equivalents.

    Army Rumour Service 2009

  • In the interim to all this usage of SuSE the IT contracting market slumped and I was forced to close my business and get a permie job (where I find myself today, a year later).

    OSNews 2009

  • At first it seems unfair, but contractors have to pay their own pension, don't have any job security, don't get paid leave, don't get sick pay or any other permie benefits.

    Army Rumour Service 2009

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