private employer

collocation in English

meaningsofprivateandemployer

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private
adjective
uk
/ˈpraɪ.vət/us
/ˈpraɪ.vət/
only for one person or group and not ...
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employer
noun[C]
uk
/ɪmˈplɔɪ.ər/us
/ɪmˈplɔɪ.ɚ/
a person or organization that ...
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(Definition ofprivateandemployerfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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I do not see why we should impose on a nationalised industry greater statutory obligations than are imposed on aprivateemployer.
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There is the home life of the miner, which has never been taken into consideration by theprivateemployeras it is to-day.
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Theprivateemployerhas no income with which to pay the work force and is, therefore, put in an impossible situation.
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It is by far the largestprivateemployerin the region.
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I am sure that anyprivateemployerwould know what to do.
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He is not really in the position of aprivateemployerat all.
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Aprivateemployerhas a perfect right to decide whom he shall or shall not employ.
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And is not theprivateemployermuch more enterprising than the statutory company.
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That is a valid point, but it is important to have a funded scheme if one has aprivateemployerwho could go broke.
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Anyprivateemployerwho dealt with his staff in that way would rightly be condemned.
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Tyranny does not cease to be tyranny, because it comes from a trade union, and not from aprivateemployer.
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We have always recognised that theprivateemployerhad to risk something, and the consumer has to chance what he can get.
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This is not a case in which aprivateemployerwould have been considered liable.
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I can see no conceivable reason, where it is public employment, that a public employer should be more embarrassing than aprivateemployer.
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Noprivateemployerwould have thought of doing such a thing.
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For that reason, does he agree that noprivateemployercan afford to fund such pensions?
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If aprivateemployersought to treat his experienced employees as hardly as this he would not be able to keep them long.
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In the nineteenth century that was theprivateemployer.
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Why do we not pay theprivateemployerfor the additional workers he takes on a subsidy which is roughly equal to unemployment benefit?
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