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employer
[ em-ploi-er ]
noun
- a person or business that employs one or more people, especially for wages or salary:
a fair employer.
- a person or thing that makes use of or occupies someone or something:
an inadequate employer of one's time.
employer
/ ɪmˈplɔɪə /
noun
- a person, business, firm, etc, that employs workers
- a person who employs; user
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Other Words From
- preem·ployer noun
- proem·ployer adjective
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Example Sentences
An Uber driver harassed me and my then-employer, and then Uber lied to me.
He emphasized that employing people with IDD is a triple win: the employer, the employee, and the federal government all benefit.
Historically, and today, how well a home care worker is treated depends entirely on the employer.
Nor is it surprising that the employer of the accused has neither fired the alleged perpetrator nor denounced the trial.
He is caught stealing by his former employer, who poisons his nervous system with a mycotoxin.
This, as a piece of pure economics, does not interest the individual employer a particle.
And it is quite true that the particular employer can no more break away from these limits than he can jump out of his own skin.
The single employer rightly knows that there is a wage higher than he can pay and hours shorter than he can grant.
The situation may be altogether in favor of the employer or altogether in favor of the men, or may occupy a middle ground.
Properly applied, the capitalist and the employer of labor need have nothing to fear from it.
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