employer
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English
Alternative forms
Etymology
From employ + -er, first attested in the late 16th century. Compare French employeur.
Pronunciation
- (General American) enPR: ĭm-ploiʹər, ĕm-ploiʹər, IPA(key): /ɪmˈplɔɪ.ɚ/, /ɛmˈplɔɪ.ɚ/
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ɪmˈplɔɪə/, /ɛmˈplɔɪə/
Audio (Southern England) (file) - (General Australian) IPA(key): /ɪmˈplɔɪə/, /ɛmˈplɔɪə/, /ɛmplɔɪˈə/
- Rhymes: -ɔɪ.ə(ɹ)
- Hyphenation: em‧ploy‧er
Noun
employer (plural employers)
- A person, firm or other entity which pays for or hires the services of another person.
- 1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter X, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC:
- The skipper Mr. Cooke had hired at Far Harbor was a God-fearing man with a luke warm interest in his new billet and employer, and had only been prevailed upon to take charge of the yacht after the offer of an emolument equal to half a year's sea pay of an ensign in the navy.
- 1973, E. F. Schumacher, Small is Beautiful:
- the ideal from the point of view of the employer is to have output without employees, and the ideal from the point of view of the employee is to have income without employment.
Derived terms
Related terms
Translations
person or entity which employs others
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See also
References
- ^ “employer, n.”, in OED Online
, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.
Anagrams
French
Etymology
Inherited from Middle French employer, from Old French emploier, emploiier, inherited from Latin implicāre. Doublet of impliquer, a borrowing.
Pronunciation
Verb
employer
- (transitive) to use (a physical thing)
- (transitive) to use (an abstract)
- On emploie cet adjectif pour décrire des choses.
- This adjective is used to describe things.
- (passive pronominal) to be used
- (transitive) to employ (a person)
- 2005, Philippe Chassaigne, Ville et violence : tensions et conflits dans la Grande-Bretagne victorienne, page 37
- Les terrassiers étaient aussi employés à construire des maisons […]
- The navvies were also employed to build houses
- 2005, Philippe Chassaigne, Ville et violence : tensions et conflits dans la Grande-Bretagne victorienne, page 37
- (passive pronominal) to be employed
Conjugation
This verb is part of a large group of -er verbs that conjugate like noyer or ennuyer. These verbs always replace the 'y' with an 'i' before a silent 'e'.
Conjugation of employer (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | employer | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | employant /ɑ̃.plwa.jɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | employé /ɑ̃.plwa.je/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | emploie /ɑ̃.plwa/ |
emploies /ɑ̃.plwa/ |
emploie /ɑ̃.plwa/ |
employons /ɑ̃.plwa.jɔ̃/ |
employez /ɑ̃.plwa.je/ |
emploient /ɑ̃.plwa/ |
| imperfect | employais /ɑ̃.plwa.jɛ/ |
employais /ɑ̃.plwa.jɛ/ |
employait /ɑ̃.plwa.jɛ/ |
employions /ɑ̃.plwaj.jɔ̃/ |
employiez /ɑ̃.plwaj.je/ |
employaient /ɑ̃.plwa.jɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | employai /ɑ̃.plwa.je/ |
employas /ɑ̃.plwa.ja/ |
employa /ɑ̃.plwa.ja/ |
employâmes /ɑ̃.plwa.jam/ |
employâtes /ɑ̃.plwa.jat/ |
employèrent /ɑ̃.plwa.jɛʁ/ | |
| future | emploierai /ɑ̃.plwa.ʁe/ |
emploieras /ɑ̃.plwa.ʁa/ |
emploiera /ɑ̃.plwa.ʁa/ |
emploierons /ɑ̃.plwa.ʁɔ̃/ |
emploierez /ɑ̃.plwa.ʁe/ |
emploieront /ɑ̃.plwa.ʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | emploierais /ɑ̃.plwa.ʁɛ/ |
emploierais /ɑ̃.plwa.ʁɛ/ |
emploierait /ɑ̃.plwa.ʁɛ/ |
emploierions /ɑ̃.plwa.ʁjɔ̃/ |
emploieriez /ɑ̃.plwa.ʁje/ |
emploieraient /ɑ̃.plwa.ʁɛ/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
present perfect | present indicative of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect | imperfect indicative of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| past anterior2 | past historic of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| future perfect | future of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| conditional perfect | conditional of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| subjunctive | que je (j’) | que tu | qu’il, qu’elle | que nous | que vous | qu’ils, qu’elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | emploie /ɑ̃.plwa/ |
emploies /ɑ̃.plwa/ |
emploie /ɑ̃.plwa/ |
employions /ɑ̃.plwaj.jɔ̃/ |
employiez /ɑ̃.plwaj.je/ |
emploient /ɑ̃.plwa/ |
| imperfect2 | employasse /ɑ̃.plwa.jas/ |
employasses /ɑ̃.plwa.jas/ |
employât /ɑ̃.plwa.ja/ |
employassions /ɑ̃.plwa.ja.sjɔ̃/ |
employassiez /ɑ̃.plwa.ja.sje/ |
employassent /ɑ̃.plwa.jas/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | emploie /ɑ̃.plwa/ |
— | employons /ɑ̃.plwa.jɔ̃/ |
employez /ɑ̃.plwa.je/ |
— | |
| compound | — | simple imperative of avoir + past participle | — | simple imperative of avoir + past participle | simple imperative of avoir + past participle | — | |
| 1 The French gerund is usable only with the preposition en. | |||||||
2 In less formal writing or speech, these tenses may be found to have been replaced in the following way:
(Christopher Kendris , Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81). | |||||||
Derived terms
Related terms
Further reading
- “employer”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé , 2012.
Anagrams
Middle French
Etymology
From Old French emploier, emploiier.
Verb
employer
Conjugation
- Middle French conjugation varies from one text to another. Hence, the following conjugation should be considered as typical, not as exhaustive.
Conjugation of employer
| infinitive | simple | employer | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle1 or gerund2 | simple | employant | |||||
| compound | present participle or gerund of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | employé | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | ie (i’) | tu | il, elle | nous | vous | ilz, elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | employe | employes | employe | employons | employez | employent |
| imperfect | employois, employoys | employois, employoys | employoit, employoyt | employions, employyons | employiez, employyez | employoient, employoyent | |
| past historic | employa | employas | employa | employasmes | employastes | employerent | |
| future | employerai, employeray | employeras | employera | employerons | employerez | employeront | |
| conditional | employerois, employeroys | employerois, employeroys | employeroit, employeroyt | employerions, employeryons | employeriez, employeryez | employeroient, employeroyent | |
| (compound tenses) |
present perfect | present indicative of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect | imperfect indicative of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| past anterior | past historic of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| future perfect | future of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| conditional perfect | conditional of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| subjunctive | que ie (i’) | que tu | qu’il, qu’elle | que nous | que vous | qu’ilz, qu’elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | employe | employes | employe | employons | employez | employent |
| imperfect | employasse | employasses | employast | employassions | employassiez | employassent | |
| (compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | employe | — | employons | employez | — | |
| compound | — | simple imperative of avoir + past participle | — | simple imperative of avoir + past participle | simple imperative of avoir + past participle | — | |
| 1 The present participle was variable in gender and number until the 17th century (Anne Sancier-Château , Une esthétique nouvelle: Honoré d'Urfé, correcteur de l'Astrée, p. 179). The French Academy would eventually declare it not to be declined in 1679. | |||||||
| 2 The gerund was held to be invariable by grammarians of the early 17th century, and was usable with preposition en, as in Modern French, although the preposition was not mandatory (Anne Sancier-Château , op. cit., p. 180). | |||||||
Descendants
- French: employer