Noun

(en noun)

One who, or that which, deploys.

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Noun

(wikipedia employer) (en noun)

A person, firm or other entity which pays for or hires the services of another person.

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* , (1911-1977)

It might be said that it is the ideal of the employer to have production without employees and the ideal of the employee is to have income without work.