inventor
Americannoun
noun
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- inventress noun
Etymology
Origin of inventor
Example Sentences
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On Boxing Day, an edit by Sir James - the billionaire inventor of the bagless vacuum cleaner - will consider how the UK could boost its entrepreneurial spirit.
From BBC
He also learned early at Amazon the importance of focus for an organization, especially when his inventor mind was busy churning out new ideas.
And yet its inventor would only get to see a portion of the royalties after selling off some of the rights prematurely.
From BBC
But Jang, of the Edgar Allan Poe House & Museum, hopes the man considered to be the inventor of the detective story stays right where he is.
From Washington Post
Instead, in 1956, Mr. Moore joined William Shockley, the inventor of the transistor, to work at a West Coast division of Bell Laboratories, a start-up unit whose aim was to make a cheap silicon transistor.
From New York Times
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