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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 employer
Many employers otherwise perform only superficial efforts at verification of legal status of employees, confident that enforcement agencies will target laborers, not management.
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Federico Peña, Denver Post, 21 Feb. 2026
Forbes also ranked large employers.
—Brayden Garcia, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 21 Feb. 2026
Codifying what crew members already do into official policy would show EMS clinicians that employers care and could reduce confusion by standardizing how the nap strategy is implemented.
—P. Daniel Patterson, The Conversation, 20 Feb. 2026
Vicarious liability refers to an employer’s liability for injury caused as a result of negligent or otherwise improper actions of its employees within the scope of employment.
—Julietta Bisharyan, Sacbee.com, 20 Feb. 2026
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Federico Peña, Denver Post, 21 Feb. 2026
Forbes also ranked large employers.
—Brayden Garcia, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 21 Feb. 2026
Codifying what crew members already do into official policy would show EMS clinicians that employers care and could reduce confusion by standardizing how the nap strategy is implemented.
—P. Daniel Patterson, The Conversation, 20 Feb. 2026
Vicarious liability refers to an employer’s liability for injury caused as a result of negligent or otherwise improper actions of its employees within the scope of employment.
—Julietta Bisharyan, Sacbee.com, 20 Feb. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for employer
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Safety briefings are being held this week with Officer Lattin and school administrators on appropriate technology use and the legal consequences of creating or possessing explicit images, including those generated by AI.—
Doug Myers,
CBS News,
22 Feb. 2026
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Friday, administrators at Northgate Middle School notified the school’s resource deputy that a student had informed them that another student in the school potentially had a firearm, Sarah Boyd, public relations manager for the Clay County Sheriff’s Department, said in an email to The Star.—
Caroline Zimmerman,
Kansas City Star,
21 Feb. 2026
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It has been loved onto the screen by the ferocious talent of MK, the exceptional executives at HBO and the world-class production team in Wolf Studios Wales, where Bad Wolf has filmed every season.—
Joe Otterson,
Variety,
25 Feb. 2026
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But for now, Saks Global executives want to convey that there is progress getting vendors shipping again and spring goods are flowing into the stores.—
David Moin,
Footwear News,
25 Feb. 2026
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Capital is still flowing, and large asset managers continue to raise funds .—
Lee Ying Shan,
CNBC,
24 Feb. 2026
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Wildlife managers have no idea how many mountain lions roam the state because estimating populations is essentially impossible.—
Ted Williams,
Denver Post,
24 Feb. 2026
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Additionally, Secretary of State Marco Rubio is rumored to be making behind-the-scenes contact with Raúl Guillermo Rodríguez Castro, the grandson of Raúl Castro, a Cuban general, former national leader, and brother of Fidel Castro.—
Maydeen Merino,
The Washington Examiner,
21 Feb. 2026
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But also on Kansas City in general.—
Laura Bauer,
Kansas City Star,
20 Feb. 2026
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Government should serve as the public’s stewards, especially mindful of those who have no vote, like children, trees and wildlife.—
Claire Murphy,
Chicago Tribune,
21 Feb. 2026
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Mayer took his responsibility as a steward for the Grateful Dead’s canon of timeless songs seriously.—
Shirley Halperin,
Rolling Stone,
17 Feb. 2026
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But generally, operations in which a cartel boss is removed lead to more violence and fragmentation of criminal groups.—
Angélica Durán-Martínez,
The Conversation,
24 Feb. 2026
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But while El Mencho may have been a savvy crime boss, his group’s strength stemmed in large part from its recruitment of affiliates nationwide.—
Mary Beth Sheridan,
CNN Money,
24 Feb. 2026
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Fifty-four percent of court supervisors are also gone — which means that those who remain are managing multiple courts at once.—
Ximena Bustillo,
NPR,
23 Feb. 2026
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Aaron Peskin, a former San Francisco supervisor and outspoken progressive, said a law Wiener wrote inadvertently stifled local housing and affordability efforts.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
22 Feb. 2026
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Sheffield Wednesday were deducted a total of 18 points by the EFL for financial regulation breaches in the first half of the season, after filing for administration, with their former owner Dejphon Chansiri prohibited from being an owner or director of any EFL club for a period of three years.—
Jessica Hopkins,
New York Times,
22 Feb. 2026
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Davis was the inaugural executive director of the Mayor’s Office to Combat Antisemitism under Mayor Eric Adams.—
Moshe Davis,
New York Daily News,
22 Feb. 2026
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“Employer.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/employer. Accessed 27 Feb. 2026.
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