Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who employs; a user; a person engaging or keeping others in service.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One who employs another.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
person ,firm or otherentity which pays for or hires the services of another person.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a person or firm that employs workers
Etymologies
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Examples
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In Tony Blairs speech to launch this initiative he included the word employer thirty-six times.
What's Going On Mark Steel 2009
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For long-term retirement investing, utilizing a Roth, traditional IRA or the 401 (k) plan available through your employer is the best place to start.
Three Money Lessons From Teenagers Laura F. Dogu 2010
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(Oh, and my employer is a university, so same situation)!
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Is that not just an extension of the employer based system in which the employer is the single payer of its employees 'insurance?
Republican senator hears health-care concerns back home 2009
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Since most employers kick money into employee health care, the employer is already more than sort of motivated to keep health care costs as low as possible.
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No, the law can only be fairly enforced when the employer is able to check the documents without spending a small fortune.
Greg Mankiw Steps in it Again, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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For long-term retirement investing, utilizing a Roth, traditional IRA or the 401 (k) plan available through your employer is the best place to start.
Three Money Lessons From Teenagers Laura F. Dogu 2010
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Unfortunately, as long as the employer is the one making the decision, only the first part of that sentence matters.
Matthew Yglesias » A Crisis of Demand, Not Productivity 2010
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But when the employer is the government, in any form,, it should be a non-starter.
Sound Politics: U.S. Supreme Court will hear state's appeal in WEA case 2006
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And - oh, yes - his employer is the United States government.
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