EMPLOYER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does employer mean? 

• EMPLOYER (noun)
  The noun EMPLOYER has 1 sense:

1. a person or firm that employs workers

  Familiarity information: EMPLOYER used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• EMPLOYER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A person or firm that employs workers

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("employer" is a kind of...):

leader (a person who rules or guides or inspires others)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "employer"):

boss; hirer (a person responsible for hiring workers)

master (directs the work of others)

mistress (a woman master who directs the work of others)

padrone (an employer who exploits Italian immigrants in the U.S.)

Simon Legree; slave driver (a cruel employer who demands excessive work from the employees)

Antonym:

employee (a worker who is hired to perform a job)

Derivation:

employ (engage or hire for work)

 Context examples 

She did not attempt to conceal her hatred for her late employer.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

This one acted as your engager, and then found that he could not find you an employer without admitting a third person into his plot.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

If you are going back to a former employer, then Mercury can never cause problems—you are simply continuing a relationship you started long ago.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

‘Don’t be frightened,’ said my employer, laughing at the start which I had given. ‘It’s only Carlo, my mastiff.’

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The mischief such a man does on an estate, both as to the credit of his employer and the welfare of the poor, is inconceivable.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

“Possibly, sir, you may not like your employer, either?” says the squire.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

It was my system which enabled me to find John Warner, late gardener of High Gable, sacked in a moment of temper by his imperious employer.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

A person who helps a patient work with others who have an effect on the patient's health, including doctors, insurance companies, employers, case managers, and lawyers.

(Patient advocate, NCI Dictionary)

Insurance through employers is often with a managed care plan.

(Health Insurance, NIH)

Also, in writing to his employer, Matt devoted a postscript to White Fang.

(White Fang, by Jack London)