employer
- noun
- /ɪmˈplɔɪər/
- Her employer offered her a promotion after she completed her training.
- employers provide
- employers offer
- employer-sponsored coverage
OK, If you need a skill to take to an employer, you got Skillshare.
- OK, If you need a skill to take to an employer, you got Skillshare.
- It could be their employers, it could be the employees.
- They just, it's hard to be an employer these days.
- It meant that the black employers won, the black workers lost.
- And we go and we talk to our employers and ask for more options.
- It is insurance that you and your employer have bought and paid for.
- Does it make sense for employers to use AI in hiring decisions?
- The way it works is the employer knows that there's not enough work.
- And so obviously that included my employers, which was Sky News.
- The workers are in one camp and the employers are in another camp.
- We are the largest employer of MIT and Caltech engineers in the world.
- And he his first statement was the employer should pay them more.
- You had to hold the employers accountable.
- So usually your employer offers you a matching contribution.
- That was probably the biggest employer in Clydebank and I went to school.
Examples
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Once a worker's contract is up for renewal, the new employer can change terms and conditions.
Academic text (2011) -
As more people got degrees, more employers insisted on degrees.
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The responsibility for providing week 12 rights is shared between the employer and the agency.
Academic text (2011) -
"If his private secretary thought her employer had gone mad, she gave no sign of it.
Fiction book (1994) -
And we go and we talk to our employers and ask for more options.
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The workers are in one camp and the employers are in another camp.
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Experts want to provide their employers with good news.
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The statement could significantly change how ministers work with employers in the future.
Academic text (2011) -
The young man relayed the information to his employer, then returned to his position at the bar.
Fiction book (1991) -
We are the largest employer of MIT and Caltech engineers in the world.
Synonyms
A person who chooses workers to do a job
Antonyms
Compounds
A company that hires people no matter their race, religion, gender or age
How Big
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word employer comes from the verb employ, which meant 'to use' or 'put to work'. So an employer is someone who 'uses' people's skills by hiring them, which is why today it means a person or company that hires workers.