industrial employer

collocation in English

meaningsofindustrialandemployer

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industrial
adjective
uk
/ɪnˈdʌs.tri.əl/
us
/ɪnˈdʌs.tri.əl/
in or related to industry, or having a lot of industry and ...
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employer
noun[C]
uk
/ɪmˈplɔɪ.ər/
us
/ɪmˈplɔɪ.ɚ/
a person or organization that ...
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(Definition ofindustrialandemployerfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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I am one of those who take pride in the structure of this country and the jointindustrialemployer-employee negotiations which we have.
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The averageindustrialemployerwishes that he knew the answer.
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As anindustrialemployer, the legal point seems to me to be rather tenuous.
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We are often told that theindustrialemployeris out to reduce wages.
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That company is our biggestindustrialemployer, and, as we know, is going through a difficult patch.
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It pays £5·6 million in rates and spends £130 million on goods and services, as well as being the largestindustrialemployerin the country.
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Alcan is the largestindustrialemployerin my constituency.
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Enlarging the plant, the company soon became the largestindustrialemployerin the city, producing 150,000 clocks annually.
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It also represents the largestindustrialemployeron the island.
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When employers confronted unions directly, employers, especially industrial employers, generally won.
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A student in this option obtains background that can lead to work as a technical specialist in a patent law firm or in the patent department of anindustrialemployer.
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Some industrial employers had hired doctors to provide medical care for their employees starting in the 1870s.
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Alongside, industrial employers, concerned about labour supply in a period of rapid expansion, generated a veritable archive on labour.
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This helped industrial employers, who used working class motherhood as both a practical and an ideological instrument to reduce the (female) workforce during the depression of the 1930s.
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First, local initiatives of the industrial employers offered health insurance and insurance against work disability for their employees.
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We do not intend to do that, but three large industrial employers said that to me.
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Of course, industrial employers have presented strong balancing arguments.
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The nuclear industry is one of the region's biggest industrial employers.
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Among others with an important part to play are public utility undertakings and industrial employers and employees.
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This matter is at present being examined by a joint committee of industrial employers and workers.
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