Spooler

noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    A device or person that winds thread onto a spool.

    "She again started to work for Respondent in November 1974 as a spooler and was thereafter laid off in January 1975. She commenced working again for Respondent in February 1975 as an oiler in the weave room on the first shift […]"

  2. 2
    A program or process that spools (places data in a queue to be accessed later).

    "The print spooler sends each page to the printer when it is ready for it."

Example

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"She again started to work for Respondent in November 1974 as a spooler and was thereafter laid off in January 1975. She commenced working again for Respondent in February 1975 as an oiler in the weave room on the first shift […]"

Etymology

From spool + -er.

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