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circulator

[ sur-kyuh-ley-ter ]

/ ˈsɜr kyəˌleɪ tər /

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noun

a person who moves from place to place.

a person who circulates money, information, etc.

a talebearer or scandalmonger.

any of various devices for circulating gases or liquids.

Obsolete. a mountebank.

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Origin of circulator

1600–10; <Latin circulātor itinerant vendor who gathers a circle of people round himself (see circulate, -tor); later as circulate + -or²

Words nearby circulator

circulating capital, circulating decimal, circulating library, circulating medium, circulation, circulator, circulatory, circulatory system, circulus, circum-, circumambient

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How to use circulator in a sentence

Hill, the circulator of the Post, caused the arrest of five of the little fellows and they were locked up.
The Pullman Boycott|W. F. Burns
Controls are all in place and wired at the factory except connection to circulator.
Installation and Operation Instructions For Custom Mark III CP Series Oil Fired Unit|Anonymous
We next examine 47, and find that it gives us the full period circulator, in 46 figures, at the beginning of this article.
The Canterbury Puzzles|Henry Ernest Dudeney
He captured me as I emerged from the "penny-circulator" with my thumb in a book.
Our Square and the People in It|Samuel Hopkins Adams

So now I have gas fires in all the rooms and a gas circulator and a gas cooker.
The Labour-saving House|Dorothy Constance Bayliff Peel