hirer
- noun
- /ˈhaɪər/
- I know that often a certain job can be different things, depending on who is hired, and the interviewing process helps the hirers.
Examples
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The issue of background checks by the hirer has cropped up in the discussion, so here is my take on that (especially in the Indian context).
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The hirer conducted interviews to find the best candidates for the job.
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Day one rights for social care staff may be quite complicated and will require a lot of communication between the hirer and the agency.
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Folks, you need to really understand just how irrelevant you are to the hirer.
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For example, Boeing is a major hirer, and they are located primarily in the Midwest and South, in low to middle cost of living areas.
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Duke borrowed a page from Hirer and Mussolini, who also downplayed their radical pasts to build parties that included moderates.
Academic text (2005) -
Liptak, Adam. "2011 Illegal Workers: Court Upholds Faulting Hirers." The New York Times, May 26:A18.
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Excellent stuff and exactly mirrors my first pass/second pass approach—and that of thousands of other hirers out there.
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In a 10% unemployment rate economy—a hirer's market if there ever was one—they can't get decent applicants.
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As a responsible hirer, she ensures that all employees receive proper training.
Synonyms
A person or company that hires people to work for them
A person who finds and hires people for a company or group
A person or company that finds and hires people for jobs especially high-level ones
A person or group that hires someone to do work for money
Antonyms
How Responsible
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Hirer comes from the verb hire plus the agent ending -er, so it literally means 'one who hires'. The verb hire goes back to an old English word meaning 'to give work and pay', so a hirer is the person who finds and employs workers.