employer
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.
Origin of employer
1Other words from employer
- pre·em·ploy·er, noun
- pro·em·ploy·er, adjective
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How to use employer in a sentence
He and his wife had to give up something to help their children get through remote schooling and it made more economic sense for him to take emergency leave, with assistance from his employer and federal relief programs.
Politics Report: A Poll and a Court Ruling in Key Council Race | Scott Lewis | August 22, 2020 | Voice of San DiegoUntil July 1st, the plan also specifically prohibited workers from working for their employers when on the scheme.
Furloughed Brits got paid not to work—but two-thirds of them worked anyway | Cassie Werber | August 18, 2020 | QuartzShe eventually found out that the state was waiting on a response from her employer … even though she was self-employed.
Florida’s Unemployment ‘Dream Team’ Helps 50K Tackle a Broken System | Joshua Eferighe | August 16, 2020 | OzyLuckily for some, certain jobs are Covid-proof, which means that they are still well in demand and employers are happy to hand out handsome compensations for them.
Not everyone in India is going without a salary hike in 2020 | Ananya Bhattacharya | August 12, 2020 | QuartzYou as an employer will need to keep your workers motivated in order to ensure that the work does not gets delayed or stopped.
The impact of Coronavirus on digital marketing and effective solutions | Birbahadur Kathayat | July 23, 2020 | Search Engine Watch
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.
Hiring People With Disabilities Isn’t Just the Right Thing to Do—It’s Good for Business | Elizabeth Picciuto | October 27, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTHistorically, 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.
Should Twitter Suspend LGBT Engineer Accused Of Raping Her Wife? | Emily Shire | October 8, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTHe is caught stealing by his former employer, who poisons his nervous system with a mycotoxin.
American Dreams: Did William Gibson’s ‘Neuromancer’ Blueprint Our Reality? | Nathaniel Rich | October 5, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTThis, as a piece of pure economics, does not interest the individual employer a particle.
The Unsolved Riddle of Social Justice | Stephen LeacockAnd 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 Unsolved Riddle of Social Justice | Stephen LeacockThe single employer rightly knows that there is a wage higher than he can pay and hours shorter than he can grant.
The Unsolved Riddle of Social Justice | Stephen LeacockThe situation may be altogether in favor of the employer or altogether in favor of the men, or may occupy a middle ground.
The Unsolved Riddle of Social Justice | Stephen LeacockProperly applied, the capitalist and the employer of labor need have nothing to fear from it.
The Unsolved Riddle of Social Justice | Stephen Leacock
British Dictionary definitions for employer
/ (ɪmˈplɔɪə) /
a person, business, firm, etc, that employs workers
a person who employs; user
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