employer
EnglishEdit
EtymologyEdit
Borrowed from Middle French employeur; equivalent to employ + -er.
PronunciationEdit
- (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
NounEdit
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.
Related termsEdit
TranslationsEdit
person or entity which employs others
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See alsoEdit
AnagramsEdit
FrenchEdit
EtymologyEdit
Inherited from Middle French employer, from Old French emploier, emploiier, inherited from Latin implicāre. Doublet of impliquer, a borrowing.
PronunciationEdit
VerbEdit
employer
- (transitive) to use (a physical thing)
- (transitive) to use (an abstract)
- On emploie cet adjectif pour décrire des choses.
- (please add an English translation of this usage example)
- (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
ConjugationEdit
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 | |||||
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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 [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81). |
Derived termsEdit
Related termsEdit
Further readingEdit
- “employer”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
AnagramsEdit
Middle FrenchEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Old French emploier, emploiier.
VerbEdit
employer
ConjugationEdit
- 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 | |||||
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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 [1995], 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 [1995], op. cit., p. 180). |
DescendantsEdit
- French: employer