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Distributer
noun
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Noun
- 1 Alternative form of distributor. alt-of, alternative, rare
"However, as he kept the post-office, it was imagined he had better opportunities of obtaining news; his paper was thought a better distributer of advertisements than mine, and therefore had many, more, which was a profitable thing to him, and a disadvantage to me; for, tho' I did indeed receive and send papers by the post, yet the publick opinion was otherwise, for what I did send was by bribing the riders, who took them privately, Bradford being unkind enough to forbid it, which occasion'd some resentment on my part; and I thought so meanly of him for it, that, when I afterward came into his situation, I took care never to imitate it."
- 2 electrical device that distributes voltage to the spark plugs of a gasoline engine in the order of the firing sequence wordnet
- 3 someone who markets merchandise wordnet
Etymology
From distribute + -er.
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