Thesaurus results for EMPLOYERS

employers

noun

plural of employer

as in administrators

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 employers One form requires brokers to list their employers and job descriptions over the last 10 years. —

Bill Shaikin, Los Angeles Times, 17 May 2026 But employers can help by contributing to employees’ retirement plans while those workers focus on paying down student loan debt. —

Mary Moreland, Fortune, 17 May 2026 The employee retention credit (ERC), introduced in March 2020, provided a refundable credit to eligible employers who paid some or all employees even though their businesses were suspended by a government order or experienced a significant decline in receipts. —

Medora Lee, USA Today, 17 May 2026 This may help employers ensure continued compliance with federal and state employment discrimination laws, which will remain in effect independent of the reporting rules. —

Michelle Travis, Forbes.com, 16 May 2026 Connections, addresses, family members and employers can be assembled fast. —

Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 16 May 2026 Bit by bit, the story’s most salacious scenes are re-enacted on stage by Gianina (Ana Dumitrașcu), who is very much not an actress, but rather a migrant maid from Romania, hired for this amateur production at the behest of her employers. —

Siddhant Adlakha, IndieWire, 16 May 2026 Social Security is financed by a payroll tax paid for by employers and employees. —

Adisa Hargett-Robinson, The Washington Examiner, 10 May 2026 Are health care costs rising for employers? —

Raja Krishnamoorthi, MSNBC Newsweek, 9 Apr. 2025

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Noun

The committee, which included teachers, administrators, counselors, nurses and social workers, cross referenced this frequent flyer list with student grades to identify students who were struggling and missing a lot of class.

— Addison Wright, Chicago Tribune, 11 May 2026
The 1984 rodeo made a profit of $23,000, but administrators cited additional and prohibitive costs as the reason for discontinuing future rodeos.

— Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 9 May 2026