The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 5 letter word USERS
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More clues leading to the result USERS
- Cats with second cast for addicts
- Guides containing no hints at the front for employers
- Escorts abandoning hotel customers
- They employ doorkeepers hospital rejected
- More than half of Liverpudlians becoming addicts?
- Employers in trouser suits
- Employers backing unions’ resurgence to some extent
- Cinema staff shifting heroin for people involved in drugs
- 3 Drug addicts employ various ruses
- Consumers requiring faultless service in United States
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The straight part
We know that "Employers" is the straight/definition part of the clue. The straight part is often a synonym or definition, in this case employers = users.The cryptic/wordplay part
In cryptic crossword there's often an wordplay/cryptic part as well.This part involves a more complex hint, such as an anagram, homophone, hidden word, etc.
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What does USERS mean?
USERS noun- One who uses or makes use of something, a consumer/client or an express or implied licensee (free user) or a trespasser.
- A person who uses drugs, especially illegal drugs.
- A person who uses a computer or a computing network, especially a person who has received a user account.
- An exploiter, an abuser (a person who "uses" people, that is treats and regards people unfairly, selfishly and/or unethically).
- In land law, meaning either 1. or 2. above or use. Usually in singular form to mean use wherever there is assiduous re-use of precedents and aloof textbooks verbatim. Modern law, guarded against ambiguity, widely disfavors the term.