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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
In Florida, where local governments are preempted from instituting sensible heat protections, workers are organizing to pressure employers to sign codes of conduct that protect their workforces.
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Terri Gerstein, New York Daily News, 25 June 2025
Investment vehicles Robo-advisor: Betterment Digital Investing IRA: Betterment Traditional, Roth and SEP IRAs 401(k): Betterment 401(k) for employers
Investment options
Stocks, bonds, ETFs and cash
Educational resources
Betterment offers retirement and other education materials
Terms apply.
—Andreina Rodriguez, CNBC, 25 June 2025
Under such agreements, an employer agrees to voluntarily recognize a union if the majority of its workers sign union cards, rather than requiring organizers to hold an election overseen by the National Labor Relations Board.
—Annika Merrilees, Sacbee.com, 25 June 2025
Clubs want a high level of confidence a deal can be completed before lodging a bid with the player’s current employers.
—Steve Madeley, New York Times, 15 June 2025
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Terri Gerstein, New York Daily News, 25 June 2025
Investment vehicles Robo-advisor: Betterment Digital Investing IRA: Betterment Traditional, Roth and SEP IRAs 401(k): Betterment 401(k) for employers
Investment options
Stocks, bonds, ETFs and cash
Educational resources
Betterment offers retirement and other education materials
Terms apply.
—Andreina Rodriguez, CNBC, 25 June 2025
Under such agreements, an employer agrees to voluntarily recognize a union if the majority of its workers sign union cards, rather than requiring organizers to hold an election overseen by the National Labor Relations Board.
—Annika Merrilees, Sacbee.com, 25 June 2025
Clubs want a high level of confidence a deal can be completed before lodging a bid with the player’s current employers.
—Steve Madeley, New York Times, 15 June 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for employer
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Climate United Fund and other nonprofits in March sued the Environmental Protection Agency, its administrator Lee Zeldin and Citibank, which held the program’s money.—
Michael Phillis,
Chicago Tribune,
4 July 2025
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The closure of Jackson South’s labor and delivery unit is the latest in South Florida and comes at a time when many hospitals across the country have closed their maternity wards, with administrators often citing costs and staffing issues.—
Miami Herald,
Miami Herald,
3 July 2025
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Inside organizations, executives are struggling to create and adapt AI policies as fast as the technology is being developed.—
Susan LaMotte,
Forbes.com,
2 July 2025
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McCurdy and Katcher are co-showrunners and will executive produce with Aniston (via her Echo Films); Sharon Horgan and Stacy Greenberg of Merman Productions; Dani Gorin, Tom Ackerley and Josey McNamara of LuckyChap; and Jerrod Carmichael and Erica Kay.—
Rick Porter,
HollywoodReporter,
1 July 2025
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This is Montgomery's first time as an MLB manager in his coaching career.—
Ryan Canfield,
FOXNews.com,
28 June 2025
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City officials credit the improvement to a consortium of managers, emergency workers and labor leaders and to changes in how city ambulances are dispatched.—
David Garrick,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
28 June 2025
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Rafael Mariano Grossi, director general of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), the U.N. office that inspects countries' nuclear programs to ensure compliance with nonproliferation agreements, made the comments in an interview recorded Friday and aired on Sunday by CBS's Face the Nation.—
Joe Hernandez,
NPR,
29 June 2025
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Mourners attend the funeral ceremony of the Iranian armed forces generals, nuclear scientists and their family members who were killed in Israeli strikes, at Islamic Revolution Square (Enghelab Square) square, in Tehran, Iran, Saturday, June 28, 2025.—
Mandy Taheri,
MSNBC Newsweek,
28 June 2025
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Producers include longtime franchise stewards Frank Marshall and Patrick Crowley, with Spielberg and Denis Stewart exec producing.—
Pamela McClintock,
HollywoodReporter,
1 July 2025
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It’s meant to thrill, not replicate a steward’s report.—
Kanzah Maktoum,
Forbes.com,
29 June 2025
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After they were discovered by her boss, she was also forced to kill her superior and burned all the participant files.—
Monica Mercuri,
Forbes.com,
28 June 2025
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One year after the studio broke industry records by nabbing some 28 series orders from broadcast networks, Walden was taken to task on the plane ride home by her boss at the time, former News Corp. president Peter Chernin.—
Cynthia Littleton,
Variety,
27 June 2025
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The agreement, which still needs to be ratified by the union membership and the supervisors, includes a $5,000 bonus in the first year, followed by a 2% cost of living adjustment and $2,000 bonus in the second year and a 5% salary increase the third year.—
Rebecca Ellis,
Los Angeles Times,
24 June 2025
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After an unseasonably warm winter, for example, when temperatures in the Czech countryside failed to drop below zero, Arrowsmith, SFX supervisor Ondrej Nierostek and their team had no choice but to build their own frozen lake from scratch.—
Christopher Vourlias,
Variety,
24 June 2025
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The family at the heart of the story run a tourism business allowing Cappadocia to feature in a way that naturally chimes with the narrative, but the connection between landscape and plot runs far deeper, series director Murat Saraçoğlu says.—
Stewart Clarke,
Deadline,
1 July 2025
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The Harrods pop-up will run from July 21 until Aug. 27, and will stock the Lucky capsule, which was conceived by Maria Grazia Chiuri, the former creative director of women’s collections who stepped down in May after nearly a decade at the brand.—
Samantha Conti,
Footwear News,
1 July 2025
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“Employer.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/employer. Accessed 8 Jul. 2025.
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