- 1nB1/ɪmˈplɔɪər/ · /ɪmˈplɔɪə/雇主 / 老闆
A person, company, or organization that pays other people to work for them.
示範例句 · Example
The shoe factory is the biggest employer in our small town.
逐字這家鞋工廠是我們小鎮上最大的雇主。
「employer」是「給人工作、發薪水的那一方」——公司、工廠，或某個人都可以是 employer。可以跟 employee（被雇用的員工）配成一對來記：employ 是「雇用」，加 -er 的是「出錢請人的一方」，加 -ee 的是「被請的那一方」。所以一家工廠請了一百個工人，工廠就是他們的 employer。
常見搭配
a prospective employer
未來可能雇用你的公司
a company you might work for in the future
Dress neatly when you meet a prospective employer.
the biggest / largest employer
請最多人的雇主
the company that employs the most people in a place
For years the car plant was the largest employer in the region.
a fair employer
公平對待員工的雇主
a company that treats its workers justly
People stay for years because the shop is a fair employer.
core核心畫面
You can picture an employer as the side that pays — the person, company or organization that hands out the and, in return, has people working for them.
原始詞典資料1 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
employernoun/ɪmˈplɔɪə/
- 1
A person, firm or other entity which pays for or hires the services of another person.
- 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.
- Today, at common law, the employer's duty to his employé is to use ordinary and reasonable care for the safety of his employé while he is performing his work.
摘錄自 英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary，已精簡格式；依 CC BY-SA 4.0 授權使用，改動後的內容同樣以此授權提供。