employers
- 1Plural of employer.
Local employers complained that they could not find enough skilled applicants.
The new regulations require employers to track overtime hours carefully.
Note
A regular plural that takes a plural verb: employers are required, not employers is. Because the singular covers firms and other entities as well as people, the plural often names businesses as a group, as in local employers or major employers. Its possessive puts the apostrophe after the s (employers' obligations), which sets it apart from the singular employer's in writing, though the two sound alike.
employers is a form of employer
employer, noun: A person, business, or other organization that pays or hires someone to perform work. Full entry
- Forms
- employeremployers plural
- Spelling
- employer → employers: add -s
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /z/.
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