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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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.

Noun

(en noun)

(senseid)A leader or head of a group of people, organisation, etc.

* 1994 , Nelson Mandela, Long Walk to Freedom , Abacus 2010, p. 4:

My father, Gadla Henry Mphakanyiswa, was a chief by both blood and custom.

(heraldiccharge) The top part of a shield or escutcheon.

* 1889 , Charles Norton Elvin, A Dictionary of Heraldry :

When the Chief' is Charged with any figure, in blazon it is said to be "''On a '''Chief ".

(senseid)A head officer in a department, organization etc.; a boss.

All firefighters report to the fire chief .

An informal address to an equal.

Hey, chief.