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employers

  • plural
    of employer.
    employer
    noun
    a person or business that employs one or more people, especially for wages or salary.

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While many employers will absorb some of the increase, they will pass part of it along to workers in the form of higher premiums and out-of-pocket costs.

From Barron's ● Oct. 22, 2026

As employees’ premium and out-of-pocket costs rise, particularly in lower-wage industries like retail, more workers may go without coverage, said Elliot Rosenblum, president of Symphony Consulting, which works with midsize employers.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 22, 2026

Prosecutors say Chowdhury "exploited" the work-from-home culture which began during the Covid-19 pandemic to hide his multiple jobs and took sick leave from some employers to manage the workload.

From BBC ● Oct. 22, 2026

But the court was told that while he was telling some employers he was sick and unfit to work because of "mixed anxiety and depressive disorder" he was not giving sick notes to other employers.

From BBC ● Oct. 21, 2026

The names of the dead were as important as the names of the living, as every loss from disease and suicide—and the other mishaps labeled as such for accounting purposes—needed to be justified to employers.

From "The Underground Railroad: A Novel" by Colson Whitehead