使し用よう者しゃ

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Common word

Meanings

noun

user; consumer

Refers to a person who uses a product, service, or facility. Often used in technical, legal, or business contexts.

このソフトウェアの使し用よう者しゃは、利り用よう規き約やくに同どう意いする必ひつ要ようがあります。
Users of this software must agree to the terms of service.
新しん製せい品ひんの使し用よう者しゃから多おおくの好こう意い的てきなフィードバックが寄よせられた。
We received a lot of positive feedback from users of the new product.

noun

employer

Less common; refers to a person or entity that employs someone. More frequently expressed as 雇用主 or 雇い主 in modern Japanese.

使し用よう者しゃは労ろう働どう者しゃに安あん全ぜんな作さ業ぎょう環かん境きょうを提てい供きょうする義ぎ務むがある。
Employers have a duty to provide a safe working environment for workers.

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Usage patterns

使し用よう者しゃが〈人ひと〉を雇やとうthe employer hires someone
使し用よう者しゃが新あたらしい労ろう働どう者しゃを雇やとった。
The employer hired a new worker.
〈物もの〉の使し用よう者しゃが増ふえるthe number of users of something increases
このアプリの使し用よう者しゃが急きゅうに増ふえた。
The number of users of this app suddenly increased.
使し用よう者しゃは〈人ひと〉に責せき任にんを負おうthe employer bears responsibility toward someone
事じ故こがあった場ば合あい、使し用よう者しゃは労ろう働どう者しゃに責せき任にんを負おう。
In case of an accident, the employer bears responsibility toward the worker.

Kanji

使use, send on a mission, order
用utilize, business, service
者someone, person

Related words

利り用よう者しゃ sense 1
利用者 emphasizes the act of utilizing a service or facility, while 使用者 focuses on the person operating or using an item.
雇こ用よう主ぬし sense 2
雇用主 is the standard modern word for 'employer', while 使用者 in this sense is rarer and mainly found in legal or labor-law contexts.
ユーザー sense 1
ユーザー is the casual loanword for 'user', common in everyday tech talk, while 使用者 is the more formal, legal/technical term.
雇やとい主ぬし sense 2
雇い主 is a more everyday, plainer word for 'employer' than the formal legal term 使用者.

Opposites

労ろう働どう者しゃN1sense 2
労働者 (worker/employee) is the opposite party to 使用者 (employer) in labor-law contexts.

Don't confuse with

使し用よう人にんN1
使用者 looks nearly identical to 使用人 but means the employer/user who employs someone, not the servant who is employed.

Counted with

人にん
The everyday counter for people: 一人 (ひとり), 二人 (ふたり), 三人 (さんにん).
名めいN2
More formal than 人 — used for headcounts in reservations, staff lists, and announcements (5名様).

Word family

使し用よう者しゃ責せき任にん
employer's liability; vicarious liability; respondeat superior

Built from

使し用よう+者しゃ

Etymology

Compound of 使用 (しよう, 'use') and 者 (しゃ, 'person'). The kanji 使 means 'use' or 'employ', 用 means 'utilize', and 者 means 'person'. The word follows a standard Sino-Japanese pattern for forming agent nouns.