employer

noun

Definition of employernext
as in administrator
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 Fast-food employers must pay a higher minimum wage of $20 per hour, but Outback Steakhouse is not classified as a fast-food establishment under the law. — Los Angeles Times, 4 Nov. 2026 Matt Harris, a political science professor at Park University, said that the state repealing laws requiring that employers offer paid sick leave, mid-decade gerrymandering and national factors reached a tipping point on Tuesday. — Jack Harvel, Kansas City Star, 4 Nov. 2026 Several researchers who resigned from leading AI companies in 2026 have accused their employers of not taking the dangers seriously enough. — Shahnaz Bashir, The Conversation, 4 Nov. 2026 While students competed against each other, construction employers were looking for people to hire. — Brian Unger, CBS News, 4 Nov. 2026 See All Example Sentences for employer
Recent Examples of Synonyms for employer
  1. administrator
  2. executive
  3. manager
  4. general
  5. steward
  6. boss
  7. supervisor
  8. director
Noun
  • Questions also remain about the district’s disciplinary investigation, Young’s employment status and what changes, if any, administrators will make to the football program before next season.
    — Sacbee.com, Sacbee.com, 3 Nov. 2026
  • Public school district administrators across the county pushed to get the proposition on the ballot, which, if adopted, will add more to county homeowners’ tax burden.
    — Charles Selle, Chicago Tribune, 2 Nov. 2026
Definition of administrator
Noun
  • Former TikTok executive Dustin Goot and former Vice exec Subrata De are both joining in senior roles, alongside media operators Alexandra Zaslow and Brannan Goetschius.
    — Max Tani, semafor.com, 2 Nov. 2026
  • But Joseph Chalom, CEO of SharpLink, one of the largest corporate holders of the cryptocurrency ether, and a former BlackRock executive, expects the gates to stay shut for a while.
    — Kevin Williams, CNBC, 1 Nov. 2026
Definition of executive
Noun
  • This was him—sans manager and inching toward divorce with Sara Lownds, the mother of his first five children—acting on his own advice, gathering his friends and just getting onstage, high and electrified and focused and free.
    — Grayson Haver Currin, Pitchfork, 7 Nov. 2026
  • Danielle DeBoe Harper is the senior creative style manager at Moen.
    — Shivani Vyas, Better Homes & Gardens, 7 Nov. 2026
Definition of manager
Noun
  • Healey previously served as the state's attorney general for two terms.
    — CBS News, CBS News, 3 Nov. 2026
  • Typically, the general in the position and their staff are responsible for generating and coordinating military plans for both the chairman of the Joint Chiefs and the president.
    — Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 30 Oct. 2026
Definition of general
Noun
  • The race stewards had been extremely clear that leaving the track and gaining a permanent advantage at turns 1 or 4 on the first lap would result in a penalty unless the driver gave the place back.
    — Jonathan M. Gitlin, ArsTechnica, 2 Nov. 2026
  • Earlier Tuesday, trainer Chris Waller was fined 50,000 Australian dollars ($35,000) and Astrix, an eight-year-old New Zealand gelding, was scratched by stewards because medication was administered to the horse's forelegs on the morning of the race.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 2 Nov. 2026
Definition of steward
Noun
  • But snakes gonna slither, so Vance (who, to be fair, was never that into this war) is using the moment to subtly blame Hegseth, and the blow seems to have landed, with his party, and with his boss.
    — Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 6 Nov. 2026
  • This time, however, the boss breaking the bad news is played by Dunham herself.
    — Alison Herman, Variety, 6 Nov. 2026
Definition of boss
Noun
  • Patrick Yaroch, 37, was a supervisor in the FBI's counterintelligence and espionage division until his arrest this summer.
    — Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 5 Nov. 2026
  • Serna endorsed Guerra, who is also supported by three other Sacramento supervisors and Sacramento councilmembers Roger Dickinson, Phil Pluckebaum and Rick Jennings.
    — Graham Womack, Sacbee.com, 4 Nov. 2026
Definition of supervisor
Noun
  • Ballard was Newsom’s communications director from 2007 to 2010, when the outgoing governor was mayor of San Francisco.
    — Lila Seidman, Los Angeles Times, 8 Nov. 2026
  • Anna Saavedra serves as the director of the Center for Civic Society within the University of Southern California Schaeffer Institute for Public Policy and Government Service.
    — Ismar Volić, Washington Post, 8 Nov. 2026
Definition of director

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“Employer.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/employer. Accessed 9 Nov. 2026.

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