employer

plural employers · alternative obsolete imployer

1. A person, firm or other entity which pays for or hires the services of another person.

   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.

   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

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   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.

   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 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.

   1973, E. F. Schumacher, Small is Beautiful

   Synonyms: company, owner, proprietor, firm, business, establishment, organization, outfit · Antonyms: employee