Mary was given a raise by her employer.
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Employer
//ɪmˈplɔɪə//
Synonyms for "employer" (54 found)
Ranked by relevance and common usage.
Closest matches (11)
Strong matches (16)
Related words (27)
Related word relations
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More general
1 entriesAntonyms
2 entriesRelated terms
5 entriescapable of
13 entriesderived
4 entriesderived from
1 entriesis a
1 entriesnot desires
1 entriesnot has_property
1 entriesrelated to
7 entriesTranslations
133 translations across 73 languages.
Afrikaans
1 entries- werkgewer noun (person or entity which employs others)
Albanian
2 entries- punëdhënës noun (person or entity which employs others)
- punëdhënëse noun (person or entity which employs others)
Ancient Greek
1 entries- ἐργοδότης noun (person or entity which employs others)
Arabic
4 entries- رَبَّة عَمَل noun (person or entity which employs others)
- رَبّ عَمَل noun (person or entity which employs others)
- صَاحِب عَمَل noun (person or entity which employs others)
- صَاحِبَة عَمَل noun (person or entity which employs others)
Armenian
1 entries- գործատու noun (person or entity which employs others)
Azerbaijani
2 entries- işverən noun (person or entity which employs others)
- işəgötürən noun (person or entity which employs others)
Bashkir
1 entries- эш биреүсе noun (person or entity which employs others)
Belarusian
3 entries- працанайма́льнік noun (person or entity which employs others)
- работада́вец noun (person or entity which employs others)
- работада́ўца noun (person or entity which employs others)
Bulgarian
2 entries- работода́тел noun (person or entity which employs others)
- работода́телка noun (person or entity which employs others)
Burmese
1 entries- အလုပ်ရှင် noun (person or entity which employs others)
Chechen
1 entries- болхлург noun (person or entity which employs others)
Chinese Mandarin
2 entries- 老板 noun (person or entity which employs others)
- 雇主 noun (person or entity which employs others)
Chuvash
1 entries- ӗҫе илекен noun (person or entity which employs others)
Czech
2 entries- zaměstnavatel noun (person or entity which employs others)
- zaměstnavatelka noun (person or entity which employs others)
Danish
1 entries- arbejdsgiver noun (person or entity which employs others)
Dutch
1 entries- werkgever noun (person or entity which employs others)
Esperanto
2 entries- dunganto noun (person or entity which employs others)
- labordonanto noun (person or entity which employs others)
Estonian
1 entries- tööandja noun (person or entity which employs others)
Finnish
1 entries- työnantaja noun (person or entity which employs others)
French
2 entries- employeur noun (person or entity which employs others)
- employeuse noun (person or entity which employs others)
Georgian
3 entries- დამსაქმებელი noun (person or entity which employs others)
- დამქირავებლი noun (person or entity which employs others)
- სამუშაოს მიმცემი noun (person or entity which employs others)
German
2 entries- Arbeitgeber noun (person or entity which employs others)
- Arbeitgeberin noun (person or entity which employs others)
Greek
2 entries- εργοδότης noun (person or entity which employs others)
- εργοδότρια noun (person or entity which employs others)
Hebrew
2 entries- מַעֲבִיד noun (person or entity which employs others)
- מַעֲסִיק noun (person or entity which employs others)
Hindi
3 entries- नियोक्ता noun (person or entity which employs others)
- नियोजक noun (person or entity which employs others)
- मालिक noun (person or entity which employs others)
Hungarian
2 entries- munkaadó noun (person or entity which employs others)
- munkáltató noun (person or entity which employs others)
Icelandic
3 entries- atvinnuveitandi noun (person or entity which employs others)
- launagreiðandi noun (person or entity which employs others)
- vinnuveitandi noun (person or entity which employs others)
Ido
1 entries- employanto noun (person or entity which employs others)
Indonesian
3 entries- majikan noun (person or entity which employs others)
- pemberi kerja noun (person or entity which employs others)
- pemekerja noun (person or entity which employs others)
Iranian Persian
2 entries- صاحِبکار noun (person or entity which employs others)
- کارْفَرْما noun (person or entity which employs others)
Irish
1 entries- fostóir noun (person or entity which employs others)
Italian
2 entries- datore di lavoro noun (person or entity which employs others)
- datrice di lavoro noun (person or entity which employs others)
Japanese
1 entries- 雇用者 noun (person or entity which employs others)
Kazakh
1 entries- жұмыс беруші noun (person or entity which employs others)
Khmer
1 entries- និយោជក noun (person or entity which employs others)
Korean
1 entries- 고용주 noun (person or entity which employs others)
Kyrgyz
2 entries- иш берүүчү noun (person or entity which employs others)
- иштетүүчү noun (person or entity which employs others)
Lao
1 entries- ນາຍຈ້າງ noun (person or entity which employs others)
Latvian
1 entries- darba devējs noun (person or entity which employs others)
Lithuanian
2 entries- darbdavys noun (person or entity which employs others)
- darbdavė noun (person or entity which employs others)
Macedonian
3 entries- работодавач noun (person or entity which employs others)
- работодавачка noun (person or entity which employs others)
- работодавец noun (person or entity which employs others)
Malay
1 entries- majikan noun (person or entity which employs others)
Marathi
2 entries- नियोक्ता noun (person or entity which employs others)
- मालक noun (person or entity which employs others)
Mongolian
1 entries- ажил олгогч noun (person or entity which employs others)
Māori
1 entries- kaiwhakamahi noun (person or entity which employs others)
Northern Kurdish
3 entries- karmend noun (person or entity which employs others)
- karsaz noun (person or entity which employs others)
- xwedankar noun (person or entity which employs others)
Norwegian Bokmål
1 entries- arbeidsgiver noun (person or entity which employs others)
Norwegian Nynorsk
2 entries- arbeidsgivar noun (person or entity which employs others)
- arbeidsgjevar noun (person or entity which employs others)
Pashto
1 entries- کارفرما noun (person or entity which employs others)
Plautdietsch
1 entries- Ieejendeema noun (person or entity which employs others)
Polish
2 entries- pracodawca noun (person or entity which employs others)
- pracodawczyni noun (person or entity which employs others)
Portuguese
2 entries- empregador noun (person or entity which employs others)
- empregadora noun (person or entity which employs others)
Romanian
2 entries- angajatoare noun (person or entity which employs others)
- angajator noun (person or entity which employs others)
Russian
4 entries- нанима́тель noun (person or entity which employs others)
- нанима́тельница noun (person or entity which employs others)
- работода́тель noun (person or entity which employs others)
- работода́тельница noun (person or entity which employs others)
Scottish Gaelic
2 entries- fastaiche noun (person or entity which employs others)
- fastaidhear noun (person or entity which employs others)
Serbo-Croatian
4 entries- poslodávac noun (person or entity which employs others)
- poslòdāvka noun (person or entity which employs others)
- посло̀да̄вка noun (person or entity which employs others)
- послода́вац noun (person or entity which employs others)
Slovak
2 entries- zamestnávateľ noun (person or entity which employs others)
- zamestnávateľka noun (person or entity which employs others)
Slovene
2 entries- delodajalec noun (person or entity which employs others)
- delodajalka noun (person or entity which employs others)
Spanish
2 entries- empleador noun (person or entity which employs others)
- empleadora noun (person or entity which employs others)
Swahili
1 entries- mwajiri noun (person or entity which employs others)
Swedish
1 entries- arbetsgivare noun (person or entity which employs others)
Tajik
3 entries- корфармо noun (person or entity which employs others)
- соҳибкор noun (person or entity which employs others)
- хӯҷаин noun (person or entity which employs others)
Tatar
1 entries- эш бирүче noun (person or entity which employs others)
Thai
1 entries- นายจ้าง noun (person or entity which employs others)
Turkish
1 entries- işveren noun (person or entity which employs others)
Ukrainian
2 entries- роботода́вець noun (person or entity which employs others)
- роботода́виця noun (person or entity which employs others)
Urdu
2 entries- آجِر noun (person or entity which employs others)
- مالِک noun (person or entity which employs others)
Uyghur
2 entries- خوجايىن noun (person or entity which employs others)
- ياللىغۇچى noun (person or entity which employs others)
Uzbek
3 entries- ish beruvchi noun (person or entity which employs others)
- sohibkor noun (person or entity which employs others)
- xoʻjayin noun (person or entity which employs others)
Vietnamese
3 entries- cai thầu noun (person or entity which employs others)
- chủ noun (person or entity which employs others)
- chủ lao động noun (person or entity which employs others)
Volapük
3 entries- hivobükan noun (person or entity which employs others)
- jivobükan noun (person or entity which employs others)
- vobükan noun (person or entity which employs others)
Welsh
1 entries- cyflogwr noun (person or entity which employs others)
Yiddish
1 entries- באַשעפֿטיקער noun (person or entity which employs others)
Sample sentences
13 total sentences available.
Tim's employer promised him pie-in-the-sky benefits.
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The employer imposed a heavy task on them.
Source: tatoeba (48114)
And that's why for almost a hundred years, any employee has been able to go to his employer and insist on being paid in cash.
Source: tatoeba (50835)
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