employer

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[edit] English

[edit] Etymology

From French employeur.

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[edit] Noun

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Singular
employer

Plural
employers

employer (plural employers)

  1. A person, firm or other entity which pays for or hires the services of another person.
    It might be said that it is the ideal of the employer to have production without employees and the ideal of the employee is to have income without work. –E. F. Schumacher

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[edit] French

[edit] Etymology

Old French empleier, from Latin implicare.

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employer

  1. To employ

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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 a ‘i’ before an ‘e’.

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