# employer
## English
### Alternative forms

* imployer (obsolete)

### Etymology

From employ +‎ -er, first attested in the late 16th century. Compare French employeur.

### Pronunciation

* (General American) enPR: ĭm-ploiʹər, ĕm-ploiʹər, IPA: /ɪmˈplɔɪ.ɚ/, /ɛmˈplɔɪ.ɚ/
* (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ɪmˈplɔɪə/, /ɛmˈplɔɪə/
* Audio (Southern England):(file)
* (General Australian) IPA: /ɪmˈplɔɪə/, /ɛmˈplɔɪə/, /ɛmplɔɪˈə/
* Rhymes: -ɔɪ.ə(ɹ)
* Hyphenation: em‧ploy‧er

### Noun

employer (plural employers)
* 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.
** 1913, James Harrington Boyd, “Distinctions Between the Common Law, Employer's Liability Laws, Workmen's Industrial Insurance Laws, and Workmen's Compensation Laws as Remedies for Compensating Workmen Injured in the Due Course of their Employment”, in Workmen's Compensation and Industrial Insurance under Modern Conditions, volume I, Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC, page 1:Today, at common law, the employer's duty to his employé is to use ordinary and reasonable care for the safety of his employé while he is performing his work.
** 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.

#### Derived terms

* antiemployer
* employerly
* multiemployer
* nonemployer

#### Related terms

* employ
* employee
* employment

#### Translations
### See also

* jobseeker

### References

* ↑ “employer, n.”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.

### Anagrams

* polyreme, re-employ, reemploy, reëmploy

## French
### Etymology

Inherited from Middle French employer, from Old French emploier, emploiier, inherited from Latin implicāre. Doublet of impliquer, a borrowing.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ɑ̃.plwa.je/
* Audio:(file)

### Verb

employer
* (transitive) to use (a physical thing)
    Synonyms: se servir de, utiliser
* (transitive) to use (an abstract)
    On emploie cet adjectif pour décrire des choses.This adjective is used to describe things.
* (passive pronominal) to be used
* (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 […]
* (passive pronominal) to be employed

#### 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'.

#### Derived terms

* employer la manière forte
* employer les grands moyens

#### Related terms

* emploi
* employable
* employé
* employeur

### Further reading

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

### Anagrams

* polymère

## Middle French
### Etymology

From Old French emploier, emploiier.

### Verb

employer
* to employ; to use; to make use of

#### Conjugation

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

#### Descendants

* French: employer