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# 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/employer/#m1)

### 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/employer/#x1)
- The hospital is the biggest employer in our town. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/employer/#x2)
- An employer must pay workers fairly. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/employer/#x3)
- The employer interviewed five people for the job. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/employer/#x4)
- Dad's employer let him work from home. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/employer/#x5)
- Employers must keep workers safe. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/employer/#x6)
- If an employer pays ten pounds an hour for eight hours, the worker earns eighty pounds. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/employer/#x7)
- He did his duty to his family, his employer, his friends, and to the public at large. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/employer/#x8)

### 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.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/3-finding-a-job-and-getting-on/7/)
- [A job interview is a meeting where an employer asks questions to decide whom to hire; several people usually compete for one job.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/3-finding-a-job-and-getting-on/8/)
- [A CV is a short, honest document about your skills, results and work, which employers read to decide whom to meet.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/39-money-work-and-the-big-choices/12/)
- [Some parents or employers add money to what you save; this is called matching, like a reward for saving.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/money/8-saving-up-for-a-game/9/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «employer» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/employer/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.