employer

Borrowed from Middle French employeur; equivalent to employ +‎ -er.

• (General American) enPR: ĭm-ploiʹər, ĕm-ploiʹər, IPA^(key): /ɪmˈplɔɪ.ɚ/, /ɛmˈplɔɪ.ɚ/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ɪmˈplɔɪə/, /ɛmˈplɔɪə/

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• (General Australian) IPA^(key): /ɪmˈplɔɪə/, /ɛmˈplɔɪə/, /ɛmplɔɪˈə/
• Rhymes: -ɔɪ.ə(ɹ)
• Hyphenation: em‧ploy‧er

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.

• employ
• employee
• employment

• jobseeker

• polyreme, re-employ, reemploy, reëmploy

From Middle French employer, from Old French emploier, emploiier, inherited from Latin implicāre, present active infinitive of implicō. Doublet of impliquer, a borrowing.

• IPA^(key): /ɑ̃.plwa.je/

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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.

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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

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'.

• employer la manière forte
• employer les grands moyens

• emploi
• employable
• employé
• employeur

• “employer”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

• polymère

From Old French emploier, emploiier.

employer

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

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

• French: employer