employer

«employer» in Mova's school dictionary: a person or company that pays people to work for them — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 4 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

noun (an employer, employers)

meaning for a pupil

An employer is a person or company that pays people to work for them. tree →

sense in the lessons

In adult work life, the employer pays wages and the employee (worker) does the job; in money lessons pupils learn about wages, contracts and holiday pay. Phrases: «my employer», «a big employer», «employer and employee», «equal opportunities employer».

examples

• Mum's employer gave her a day off for her birthday. tree →
• The hospital is the biggest employer in our town. tree →
• An employer must pay workers fairly. tree →
• The employer interviewed five people for the job. tree →
• Dad's employer let him work from home. tree →
• Employers must keep workers safe. tree →
• If an employer pays ten pounds an hour for eight hours, the worker earns eighty pounds. tree →
• He did his duty to his family, his employer, his friends, and to the public at large. tree →

note

Countable. Opposite: employee (the worker). Related: employ, employment, unemployed. Ending -er = the one who does it; -ee = the one it is done to.

In the corpora

• Employers often glance at a CV for less than a minute, so grown-ups fuss over every word.
• A job interview is a meeting where an employer asks questions to decide whom to hire; several people usually compete for one job.
• A CV is a short, honest document about your skills, results and work, which employers read to decide whom to meet.
• Some parents or employers add money to what you save; this is called matching, like a reward for saving.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «employer» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.