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a person or company that has people who do work for wages or a salary; a person or company that has employees
It was the employer's responsibility to improve workplace safety. Your travel expenses should be paid for by your employer.
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Recent Examples of employers
This new level of visibility could also pressure employers to be more transparent about layoffs.
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Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 9 Nov. 2025
Suarez, a real estate lawyer by trade, has refused to comment on the list of employers made public in August.
—Miami Herald, 7 Nov. 2025
Taking away automatic renewal also dissuades employers from offering jobs to H-4 holders out of concerns about potential employment gaps, Peddibhotla added.
—Ethan Baron, Mercury News, 7 Nov. 2025
Despite the generous offer, her former employers were furious.
—Ashley Vega, PEOPLE, 7 Nov. 2025
Under the agreements, Medicare will start covering GLP-1s for obesity for certain patients for the first time beginning in mid-2026 – a shift that will open access to millions of older adults and could spur more employers and other private insurers to follow suit, some experts said.
—Annika Kim Constantino, CNBC, 7 Nov. 2025
As some contract employers attempted to be as transparent as possible, NASA's communication efforts with its own workforce shrank over the course of the year.
—Josh Dinner, Space.com, 31 Oct. 2025
Traditional college programs, employers say, often graduate students who lack meaningful contact with the realities of hotel operations.
—Daniel Fusch, USA Today, 30 Oct. 2025
Veterans who have left their news employers over the past year include CNN’s Chris Wallace and Alisyn Camerota and Fox News’ Neil Cavuto.
—Brian Steinberg, Variety, 30 Oct. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for employers
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Local administrators on Sunday were awaiting further guidance from the state during the quickly evolving situation, said Janna Haynes, a county spokeswoman.—
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Last month, gunshots rang out in the areas surrounding two HBCUs, leaving administrators scrambling as schools attempted to ramp up security in the wake of the violence.—
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But early albums did not produce songs with mass appeal, at times frustrating record label executives who craved shorter, radio-friendly tunes that would drive sales.—
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Gurmeet Lamba balances ceramics art, advising executives in the fields of Robotics and AI and serving the community as a Cupertino fine arts commissioner.—
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At Gracie O'Malley's in Wicker Park, fans and managers are thrilled for playoff football to return.—
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And is there really a lack of top-class managers up for grabs for Premier League clubs in 2026, as my colleague Michael Cox argues?—
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The Directors Guild of America has revealed its nominees for the 2026 DGA Awards for theatrical feature film directors and first-time theatrical feature film directors.—
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One of the directors of the Chinese cave training, veteran astronaut Ye Guangfu, also participated in a 2016 CAVES training in a European cavern.—
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Human supervisors will monitor early deployments, and training Atlas for a new task typically takes only a day or two.—
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Police officers documented the interaction after speaking with supervisors.—
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There is so much energy in Falk’s writing that the reader can feel tensions in the city as officials, some working secretly with the bosses, try to stop the cigar factory women from organizing, call them Communists and demean them for being Polish.—
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This is a very special week to pitch ideas to bosses or powerful figures.—
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While donated blood is called whole blood, stewards of the blood supply will split and spin blood into separate bags with just red blood cells or with the plasma.—
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The Republican Party can appeal to Marylanders by returning to its roots as responsible stewards of the environment and support for small businesses that are currently struggling with international tariffs and skyrocketing health care costs.—
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“Employers.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/employers. Accessed 13 Jan. 2026.
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