employer

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English[edit]

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Etymology[edit]

From employ +‎ -er, first attested in the late 16th century.[1] Compare French employeur.

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Noun[edit]

employer (plural employers)

  1. A person, firm or other entity which pays for or hires the services of another person.
    • 1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter X, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC:
      The skipper Mr. Cooke had hired at Far Harbor was a God-fearing man with a luke warm interest in his new billet and employer, and had only been prevailed upon to take charge of the yacht after the offer of an emolument equal to half a year's sea pay of an ensign in the navy.
    • 1973, E. F. Schumacher, Small is Beautiful:
      the ideal from the point of view of the employer is to have output without employees, and the ideal from the point of view of the employee is to have income without employment.

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  1. ^ employer, n.”, in OED Online Paid subscription required, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.

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French[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Inherited from Middle French employer, from Old French emploier, emploiier, inherited from Latin implicāre. Doublet of impliquer, a borrowing.

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Verb[edit]

employer

  1. (transitive) to use (a physical thing)
    Synonyms: se servir de, utiliser
  2. (transitive) to use (an abstract)
    On emploie cet adjectif pour décrire des choses.
    This adjective is used to describe things.
  3. (passive pronominal) to be used
  4. (transitive) to employ (a person)
    • 2005, Philippe Chassaigne, Ville et violence : tensions et conflits dans la Grande-Bretagne victorienne, page 37
      Les terrassiers étaient aussi employés à construire des maisons []
      The navvies were also employed to build houses []
  5. (passive pronominal) to be employed

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This verb is part of a large group of -er verbs that conjugate like noyer or ennuyer. These verbs always replace the 'y' with an 'i' before a silent 'e'.

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Etymology[edit]

From Old French emploier, emploiier.

Verb[edit]

employer

  1. to employ; to use; to make use of

Conjugation[edit]

  • Middle French conjugation varies from one text to another. Hence, the following conjugation should be considered as typical, not as exhaustive.

Descendants[edit]

  • French: employer