circulator
Americannoun
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a person who moves from place to place.
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a person who circulates money, information, etc.
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a talebearer or scandalmonger.
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any of various devices for circulating gases or liquids.
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Obsolete. a mountebank.
Etymology
Origin of circulator
1600–10; < Latin circulātor itinerant vendor who gathers a circle of people round himself ( circulate, -tor ); later as circulate + -or 2
Example Sentences
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Online reaction to Metro’s draft environmental impact report echoes the agency’s dilemma: choosing speed and convenience, or creating a local circulator to densely populated neighborhoods.
From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 9, 2024
They then built their circulator and ran a host of experiments not just to prove their concept, but to understand exactly how their device enabled nonreciprocity.
From Science Daily • May 1, 2024
You might have anti-griddles over here, you're going to have a Carpigiani ice cream machine over here, you're going to have a circulator already set.
From Salon • Apr. 22, 2023
The petition circulator stays silent, and Wallace prompts him again, asking if signing the petition definitely will help to raise pay.
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 27, 2022
We have purchased fixtures for a new steam saw-mill, with two saws and a circulator, and various other small machinery, all entirely new, which we shall get into operation soon.
From History of American Socialisms by Noyes, John Humphrey
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