Orienter

noun

noun ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    A person or thing that orients.

    "[…] an agreement about their Significance in the sense that there is acceptance of the appropriateness of these signals and signs as orienters of interaction in a specific social situation and a commonality of response to them."

Example

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"[…] an agreement about their Significance in the sense that there is acceptance of the appropriateness of these signals and signs as orienters of interaction in a specific social situation and a commonality of response to them."

Etymology

From orient + -er.

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