beautician
Americannoun
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beauticians
plural
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a person trained to style and dress the hair; hairdresser.
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a manager or an employee of a beauty salon.
noun
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Etymology
Origin of beautician
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She worked at her parents’ general store and for a beautician.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 23, 2026
Like many of her fellow volunteers, Hungarian beautician Krisztina Menczel sat idle in the past elections that kept nationalist Prime Minister Viktor Orban in power.
From Barron's ● Apr. 3, 2026
The beautician disclosed the house call to the club’s human resources team, one of the former employees said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 31, 2025
The BBC's North West investigation began after the team was contacted by a beautician concerned about how widespread the use of illegal treatments was in the region.
From BBC ● Oct. 28, 2025
His mom was a beautician who sold Avon.
From "Eleanor & Park" by Rainbow Rowell
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"Many beauticians often have a little too much freedom. They think they have learned and, without being surgeons, sometimes perform surgical procedures," Kyrgyz plastic surgeon Iskender Kachkinbayev told AFP.
From Barron's ● Jul. 17, 2026
The UK Health Security Agency recently linked 41 confirmed cases of botulism to the use of an unlicensed toxin bought from beauticians over the summer.
From BBC ● Nov. 11, 2025
Other pharmacists filmed or spoken to by BBC undercover researchers posing as beauticians described taking similar shortcuts.
From BBC ● Oct. 13, 2025
She sat patiently as ardent beauticians prepared her for her formal investiture, a highlight of the three-day festival — or vela — that celebrates muxe culture here every November.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 11, 2024
“The beauticians got a group, they marched. Everybody marched after the teachers marched.”
From "Because They Marched" by Russell Freedman
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