employer

English

Etymology

From French employeur.

Pronunciation

• enPR: ĕm-ploi'ûr
• Rhymes: -ɔɪə(r)

Noun

Wikipedia 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

Translations

person or entity which employs others

• Afrikaans: werkgewer
• Bulgarian: работодател (bg) (rabotodatel) m
• Chechen: болхлург
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 雇主 (cmn) (gùzhǔ)

• Czech: zaměstnavatel (cs) m
• Danish: arbejdsgiver (da)
• Dutch: werkgever (nl) m
• Estonian: tööandja
• Finnish: työnantaja (fi)
• French: employeur (fr) m
• German: (male or generic) Arbeitgeber (de) m, (female) Arbeitgeberin (de) f
• Greek: εργοδότης (el) (ergodótis) m, εργοδότρια (el) (ergodótria) f
• Hungarian: munkaadó (hu), munkáltató (hu)
• Irish: fostóir (ga) m
• Italian: datore di lavoro (it) m

• Japanese: 雇用者 (ja) (こようしゃ, koyōsha)
• Macedonian: работодавач (mk) (rabotodávač) m
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: arbeidsgiver (nb) m

  Nynorsk: arbeidsgjevar (nn) m, arbeidsgivar (nn) m

• Polish: pracodawca (pl) m
• Portuguese: empregador (pt) m
• Romanian: angajator (ro) m
• Russian: работодатель (ru) (rabotodátelʹ) m, работодательница (ru) (rabotodátelʹnica) f, наниматель (ru) (nanimátelʹ) m, нанимательница (ru) (nanimátelʹnica) f
• Scottish Gaelic: fastaidhear (gd) m, fastaiche (gd) m
• Serbo-Croatian: poslodavac (sh) m
• Spanish: empleador (es) m
• Swahili: mwajiri (sw)
• Swedish: arbetsgivare (sv) c
• Volapük: (male or female) vobükan (vo), (male) hivobükan (vo), (female) jivobükan (vo)

Related terms

• employ
• employee
• employment

Anagrams

• polyreme
• reemploy

---

French

Etymology

Old French emploier, from Latin implicāre, present active infinitive of implicō.

Pronunciation

• Audio

  (file)

Verb

employer

1. to employ

Conjugation

• 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’.

   Conjugation of employer (see also Appendix:French verbs)

		simple			compound
infinitive		employer			avoir employé
gerund		en employant			en ayant employé
present participle		employant
past participle		employé
person		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il	nous	vous	ils
simple tenses	present	emploie	emploies	emploie	employons	employez	emploient
	imperfect	employais	employais	employait	employions	employiez	employaient
	past historic1	employai	employas	employa	employâmes	employâtes	employèrent
	future	emploierai	emploieras	emploiera	emploierons	emploierez	emploieront
	conditional	emploierais	emploierais	emploierait	emploierions	emploieriez	emploieraient
compound tenses	present perfect	Use the present tense of avoir followed by the past participle
	pluperfect	Use the imperfect tense of avoir followed by the past participle
	past anterior1	Use the past historic tense of avoir followed by the past participle
	future perfect	Use the future tense of avoir followed by the past participle
	conditional perfect	Use the conditional tense of avoir followed by the past participle
subjunctive		que je (j’)	que tu	qu’il	que nous	que vous	qu’ils
simple tenses	present	emploie	emploies	emploie	employions	employiez	emploient
	imperfect1	employasse	employasses	employât	employassions	employassiez	employassent
compound tenses	past	Use the present subjunctive of avoir followed by the past participle
	pluperfect1	Use the imperfect subjunctive of avoir followed by the past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
		—	emploie	—	employons	employez	—
1literary tenses

Related terms

• emploi
• employable
• employé
• employeur

Anagrams

• polymère

---

Middle French

Verb

employer

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

Conjugation

   Conjugation of employer

		simple			compound
infinitive		employer			avoir employé
gerund		en employant			Use the gerund of avoir followed by the past participle
present participle		employant
past participle		employé
person		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (may be j' before a vowel)	tu	il	nous	vous	ils, elles
simple tenses	present	employe	employes	employe	employons	employez	employent
	imperfect	employois, employoys	employois, employoys	employoit, employoyt	employions, employyons	employiez, employyez	employoient, employoyent
	past historic	employa	employas	employa	employasmes	employastes	employerent
	future	employerai, employeray	employeras	employera	employerons	employerez	employeront
	conditional	employerois, employeroys	employerois, employeroys	employeroit, employeroyt	employerions, employeryons	employeriez, employeryez	employeroient, employeroyent
compound tenses	present perfect	Use the present tense of avoir followed by the past participle
	pluperfect	Use the imperfect tense of avoir followed by the past participle
	past anterior	Use the past historic tense of avoir followed by the past participle
	future perfect	Use the future tense of avoir followed by the past participle
	conditional perfect	Use the conditional tense of avoir followed by the past participle
subjunctive		que je	que tu	qu'il	que nous	que vous	qu'ils, qu'elles
simple tenses	present	employe	employes	employe	employons	employez	employent
	imperfect	employasse	employasses	employast	employassions	employassiez	employassent
compound tenses	past	Use the present subjunctive of avoir followed by the past participle
	pluperfect	Use the imperfect subjunctive of avoir followed by the past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
		—	employe	—	employons	employez	—