Employer

Definition: Employer

Employer

Noun

1. A person or firm that employs workers.

Date "employer" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1598. (references)

Domain	Definitions
Labor	Any natural or legal person who has an employment relationship with the worker and has responsibility for the undertaking and/or establishment. Source: European Union. (references)
	A person or business that employees one or more people for wages or salary; the legal entity responsible for payment of quarterly unemployment insurance taxes or for reimbursing the state fund for unemployment insurance benefits costs in lieu of paying the quarterly taxes (202). (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Antonym: employee (n). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Purchase	Buyer, purchaser, emptor, vendee; patron, employer, client, customer, clientele.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Domain	Usage
Screenplays	My employer would like you to solve a mystery on Spooky Island. (Scooby-Doo; writing credit: William Hanna; Joseph Barbera) But as the employer, it is your job to make your employees feel that they are part of the decision-making process. (NewsRadio; writing credit: Scott Bank; Jenny Banks)
Clever	It is not the employer who pays wages, he only handles the money. It is the product that pays wages. (references; author: unknown)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Domain	Title
Books	Boston Consulting Group: The VaultReports.com Employer Profile for Job Seekers (reference) Competing for Talent: Key Recruitment and Retention Strategies for Becoming an Employer of Choice (reference) Fired, Down-Sized, or Laid-Off: What Your Employer Doesn't Want You to Know About How to Fight Back (reference) How to Become an Employer of Choice (reference) How to Choose Your Next Employer (reference) (more book examples)

Periodicals	California Employer Advisor (reference) Common Sense Employer (reference) (more periodical examples)

Theater & Movies	Drugs In The Workplace - Employer (reference) (more DVD examples; more video examples)

High Tech	Ultimate Employer 1.2 (reference) Ultimate Employer 4.0 (reference) Ultimate Employer 5.0 (reference) (more camera examples; more video game examples; more computer examples; more electronic examples; more software examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Thumbnail	Description & Credit	Thumbnail	Description & Credit
	If dreams came true! Albert, the office boy, puts one over on his employer.Credit: Library of Congress.		Negro day laborer moving from one man's farm to another to get work. He wasn't needed any more by former "employer." The son of his new employer said his father used to have tenants but that they "skinned" him too often by moving out on him all the time.Credit: Library of Congress.
	Negro day laborer moving from one man's farm to another to get work. He wasn't needed any more by former "employer." The son of his new employer said his father used to have tenants but that they "skinned" him too often by moving out on him all the time.Credit: Library of Congress.		Negro day laborer moving from one man's farm to another to get work. He wasn't needed any more by former "employer." The son of his new employer said his father used to have tenants but that they "skinned" him too often by moving out on him all the time.Credit: Library of Congress.
	Negro day laborer moving from one man's farm to another to get work. He wasn't needed any more by former "employer." The son of his new employer said his father used to have tenants but that they "skinned" him too often by moving out on him all the time.Credit: Library of Congress.		Washing facilities in the home of Elmer Johnson, hired farmhand. Near Battle Ground, Indiana. His employer has a bathroom in a modern house.Credit: Library of Congress.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Subject	Topic	Quote
Health		Talk with your employer about your needs and wishes. (references)
		Your employer may be violating laws that protect you from unfair practices. (references)
		Find out which one your employer offers, then check out the plan, or plans, offered. (references)
Business		At this point, the Saudi employer will usually bear the premiums. (references)
		It is also the fourth largest employer in the manufacturing sector. (references)
		Employer organizations abandoned efforts to push for labor law reform. (references)
Children	United Kingdom	As part of a government drive to protect children from child abusers, previously secret registers of pedophiles are available to any employer who runs an organization where persons under age 18 could be at risk (schools, children's homes, or voluntary organizations). (references)
Civil Liberties	Laos	As the sole employer of virtually all academic professionals, the Government exercises some control over their ability to travel on research or obtain study grants. (references)
	Saudi Arabia	Previously, foreign residents who traveled within the country could be asked by the authorities to show that they possessed letters of permission from their employer or sponsor. (references)
Economic History	Australia	The automotive industry is the state's largest employer. (references)
	Barbados	The public service remains Barbados' largest single employer. (references)
	Luxembourg	Goodyear is currently the country's second largest private employer. (references)
Human Rights	Saudi Arabia	The regulations also provide for bail for less serious crimes, although authorities at times release detainees on the recognizance of a patron or sponsoring employer without the payment of bail. (references)
	France	As a result of the motion for retrial submitted in 1999, new evidence, including new DNA evidence, was discovered in the case of Omar Raddad, who was convicted of killing his employer in 1994. At year's end, the Court of Cassation was considering whether to hold a new trial or to revise the original verdict. (references)
	United Arab Emirates	The appellate standard for overturning an acquittal is reportedly "without the slightest doubt of guilt." In a widely reported case in January, a Shari'a court acquitted a Filipina housemaid on the grounds of self-defense for killing her citizen employer when he tried to rape her on the day she arrived in the country in Ras Al-Khaimah. (references)
Political Economy	MOROCCO	Employers dismiss workers for union activities regarded as threatening to employer interest. (references)
	UNITED KINGDOM	Unions have a legal right to appoint safety representatives where an employer has recognized their union. (references)
	INDONESIA	Employer violations of legal requirements are fairly common and often result in strikes and employee protests. (references)
Trade	Guatemala	Tel (502) 331-6102 and Fax: (502) 332-4011, offer exemption from payment of all duties and taxed (except employer social security contributions). (references)
	South Africa	The IDC recently established a special Black Economic Empowerment Scheme to make its financing programs available to black South African enterprises, entrepreneurs, and employer organizations. (references)
Travel	Poland	Permits may be extended at the request of the employer. (references)
Women	Argentina	In the first conviction of an employer for allowing sexual harassment, a woman was awarded $25,000 in compensation in August. (references)
	Israel and the occupied territories	The amendment also prohibited any employer from dismissing an employee during that person's first 6 months of residence in a shelter. (references)
	Netherlands	As the largest employer, the Government has taken measures to counter harassment among civil servants, including in the police force. (references)
Worker Rights	Saint Kitts and Nevis	However, the employer must pay lost wages and severance pay. (references)
	Poland	The State, their monopoly employer, offered a 12 percent raise. (references)
	Sweden	Most business owners belong to counterpart employer organizations. (references)
Lexicography	Devil's Dictionary	ABASEMENT, n. A decent and customary mental attitude in the presence of wealth of power. Peculiarly appropriate in an employee when addressing an employer.
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

"Employer" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 99.60% of the time. "Employer" is used about 2,983 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (singular)	99.6%	2,971	3,151
Noun (proper)	0.37%	11	106,044
Unclassified Items	0.03%	1	339,140
Total	100.00%	2,983	N/A

Expressions using "employer": Employer Health Costs ♦ former employer ♦ liable employer ♦ rural employer. Additional references.
Hyphenated Usage
	Beginning with "employer": employer-based, employer-company, employer-directed, employer-education, employer-employee, employer-employee relationship, employer-financed, employer-friends, employer-led, employer-magistrates, employer-provided, employer-related, employer-union.
	Ending with "employer": ex-employer, multi-employer, single-employer.
	Containing "employer": employee-employer relationship.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Language		Translations for "employer"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Afrikaan		werkgewer. (various references)

Albanian		punëdhënës, ndërmarrës (entrepreneur). (various references)

Arabic		‏صاحب العمل (taskmaster), ‏المستخدم (employee, user), ‏المشغل. (various references)

Asturian		emplegador. (various references)

Bemba		uubomfya. (various references)

Bulgarian		работодател (gaffer, master, padrone), пълномощник (agent, assignee, attorney, commissary, deputy, factor, mandatary, mandatory, procurator, proxy, vicegerent). (various references)

Cebuano		agalon. (various references)

Chamorro		amu. (various references)

Chinese		雇主 . (various references)

Cornish		arfedhor. (various references)

Czech		zamìstnavatel, chlebodárce (provider). (various references)

Danish		bedriftsleder for et undervisningslandbrug (licensed master farmer), arbejdsgiver. (various references)

Dutch		werkgever. (various references)

Ecuadorian Quechua		apu. (various references)

Esperanto		dunginto, dunganto. (various references)

Faeroese		arbeiðsgevari. (various references)

Farsi		کارفرما (Master, Taskmaster), استخدام کننده . (various references)

Finnish		isäntä (boss, farmer, head of the house, host, landlord, licensed master farmer, master). (various references)

French		employeur (employe). (various references)

Frisian		wurkjouwer. (various references)

German		arbeitgeber (employers, liable employer, taskmaster), Firma (business, company, concern, corporation, firm, inc). (various references)

Greek		εργοδότης. (various references)

Hebrew		מעבי�" (taskmaster), מעסיק. (various references)

Hungarian		munkaadó, munkáltató. (various references)

Indonesian		majikan (boss). (various references)

Inuktitut		angajuqqaaq. (various references)

Italian		datore di lavoro. (various references)

Japanese Kanji		雇�"�主 , 雇い主 , 雇主 , 求人者 (someone hunting for workers), 使い手 (consumer, master, prodigal, spendthrift, user), 主人 (head, host, landlord, master, one's husband), 主 (chief, god, head, host, important, landlord, lord, lover, main, master, one's husband, owner, principal). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		きゅうじ�"しゃ (someone hunting for workers), しゅじ�" (head, host, landlord, master, one's husband), つかいて (consumer, master, prodigal, spendthrift, user), �"しゅ (clinging, drummer, head of a household, last year's sake, old sake, one's former master, well-cured sake), �"ようぬし, あるじ (head, host, landlord, master, one's husband), やといぬし. (various references)

Korean		� 용주 (hirer). (various references)

Macedonian		rabotodavec. (various references)

Manx		failleyder (engager, personnel officer). (various references)

Maori		paahi. (various references)

Pig Latin		employeray

Portuguese		empregador (boss). (various references)

Provencal		emplegaire, emplegaira. (various references)

Romanian		stãpân (husband, king, Lord, master, owner, proprietor, sovereign), patron (boss, master, owner, patron, patron saint, paymaster, protector), antreprenor (contractor, enterpriser, entrepreneur, undertaker). (various references)

Ruanda		umukoresha. (various references)

Russian		работодатель. (various references)

Samoan		tagata pule. (various references)

Sepedi		mothwadi. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		poslodavac (taskmaster). (various references)

Shona		murungu. (various references)

Spanish		patrón (boss, captain, chief, governor, guv, host, landlord, leader, master, measurement standard, model, patron, pattern, shipmaster, skipper, standard, stencil, stock, template, templet), empresario (businessman, capitalist, contractor, enterpriser, entrepreneur, fabricator, holder, impresario, manager, promoter, showman). (various references)

Swazi		um-cashi. (various references)

Swedish		arbetsgivare. (various references)

Thai		นายจ้าง (boss). (various references)

Turkish		patron (baas, boss, chief, dress pattern, governor, guv, guvnor, leader, magnate, nibs, old man, patron, patronizer, pattern, the governor, top dog), işveren (boss, taskmaster). (various references)

Ukranian		роботодавець, господар (entertainer, host, master, proprietor), наймач (leaseholder, occupant, renter). (various references)

Vietnamese		chủ (master, proprietor). (various references)

Welsh		cyflogwr (hirer). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "employer": employers. (additional references)
	Words ending with "employer": multiemployer. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Employer" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: emploie, employa, employe, employes. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "employer" (pronounced employ"er or umploy"er)
5	-m p l oy" er	multiemployer.
6	u m p l oy" er	multiemployer.
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Direct Anagrams: reemploy.
	Words within the letters "e-e-l-m-o-p-r-y"
	-1 letter: employe, polymer.
	-2 letters: eloper, empery, employ, merely, mopery, yelper.
	-3 letters: elope, emery, leery, leper, loper, merle, moper, mopey, morel, myope, peery, plyer, poler, proem, prole, repel, reply, ropey.
	-4 letters: eely, eery, elmy, eyer, eyre, leer, lope, lore, lory, lyre, mere, merl, mole, moly, mope, mopy, more, omer, orle, oyer, peel, peer, pele, perm, ploy, poem, pole, poly, pome, pore, pree, prey, prom, pyre, reel, rely, repo, role, romp, rope, ropy, yelp, ylem, yore.
	-5 letters: eel, elm, eme, ere, eye, lee, ley, lop, lye, mel, mol, mop, mor, ole, ope, ore, pee, per, ply, pol, pom, pro, pry, pye, ree, rem, rep, roe, rom, rye, yep, yom.
	Words containing the letters "e-e-l-m-o-p-r-y"
	+1 letter: employers, reemploys.
	+2 letters: polymerase, polymerise, polymerize, reemployed, terpolymer.
	+3 letters: polymerases, polymerised, polymerises, polymerized, polymerizes, reemploying, terpolymers.
	+4 letters: cephalometry, compressedly, copolymerize, depolymerize, extemporally, hypercomplex, myrmecophile, nephelometry, peremptorily, redeployment, reemployment.
	+5 letters: complementary, compressively, copolymerized, copolymerizes, depolymerized, depolymerizes, extemporarily, multiemployer, myrmecophiles, predominately, preemployment, pyrheliometer, redeployments, reemployments, underemployed.
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

45 6D 70 6C 6F 79 65 72

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

⁼

Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

. -- .--. .-.. --- -.--. . .-.

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000101 01101101 01110000 01101100 01101111 01111001 01100101 01110010

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#69 &#109 &#112 &#108 &#111 &#121 &#101 &#114

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0045 006D 0070 006C 006F 0079 0065 0072

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

Expression	Frequency per Day
employer	455
employer identification number	167
employer directory	131
direct employer	117
thank you letter to an employer	87
employer potential question	78
employer right	54
equal opportunity employer	53
national association of college and employer	50
employer interview question	45
employer group	44
employer association	41
employer liability insurance	41
employer letter	37
employer liability	36
employer rejection letter	29
employer major sarasota	27
employer services	26
employer of choice	25
employer hipaa	24
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Employer

Definition: Employer

Employer

Noun

Specialty Definitions: Employer

Synonyms within Context: Employer

Purchase

Crosswords: Employer

Modern Usage: Employer

Screenplays

Clever

Commercial Usage: Employer

Books

Periodicals

Theater & Movies

High Tech

Image Slideshow: Employer

Computer Images:Employer

Photo Album: Employer

Non-Fiction Usage: Employer

Lexicography

Devil's Dictionary

Usage Frequency: Employer

Expressions: Employer

Frequency of Internet Keywords: Employer

employer

employer identification number

employer directory

direct employer

thank you letter to an employer

employer potential question

employer right

equal opportunity employer

national association of college and employer

employer interview question

employer group

employer association

employer liability insurance

employer letter

employer liability

employer rejection letter

employer major sarasota

employer services

employer of choice

employer hipaa

Modern Translations: Employer

Afrikaan

Albanian

Arabic

Asturian

Bemba

Bulgarian

Cebuano

Chamorro

Chinese

Cornish

Czech

Danish

Dutch

Ecuadorian Quechua

Esperanto

Faeroese

Farsi

Finnish

French

Frisian

German

Greek

Hebrew

Hungarian

Indonesian

Inuktitut

Italian

Japanese Kanji

Japanese Katakana

Korean

Macedonian

Manx

Maori

Pig Latin

Computer Images:
Employer