Word Type

Noun

The word "employer" can be used as a noun.

Word Relationships

Opposites (Antonyms)

employee employee

Capable Of

fire employee fire employees hire new employees lay off employees offer job offer job to page employee with beeper pay employee pay employee with check pay employees pay worker present employee with paycheck require employee to work

Derived Terms

antiemployer employerly multiemployer nonemployer

Derived From

employ

Broader Terms (Hypernyms)

leader

Type Of (IsA)

leader

Not Desires

employees to tardy

Not Has Property

obliged to lower performance standards

Related Terms

boss employ employee employment jobseeker

Related Terms

employ employee employment entity firm jobseeker person

Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.