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.

Noun

(wikipedia employment)

A use, purpose

* 1873 , John Stuart Mill, Autobiography of John Stuart Mill

This new employment of his time caused no relaxation in his attention to my education.

The act of employing

''The personnel director handled the whole employment procedure

The state of being employed

* 1853 , Herman Melville, Bartleby, the Scrivener'', in ''Billy Budd, Sailor and Other Stories'', New York: Penguin Books, 1968; reprint 1995 as ''Bartleby , ISBN 0 14 60.0012 9, p.3:

At the period just preceding the advent of Bartleby, I had two persons as copyists in my employment , and a promising lad as an office-boy.

The work or occupation for which one is used, and often paid

An activity to which one devotes time

(economics) The number or percentage of people at work