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fitter

[ fit-er ]

noun

  1. a person or thing that fits. fit.
  2. a person who fits fit garments.
  3. a worker who fits fit together or adjusts the parts of machinery.
  4. a person who supplies and fixes fittings or fixtures.
  5. a person who furnishes or equips with whatever is necessary for some purpose.


fitter

/ ˈfɪtə /

noun

  1. a person who fits a garment, esp when it is made for a particular person
  2. a person who is skilled in the assembly and adjustment of machinery, esp of a specified sort

    an electrical fitter

  3. a person who supplies something for an expedition, activity, etc
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Word History and Origins

Origin of fitter1

First recorded in 1650–60; fit 1 + -er 1
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Example Sentences

Bike fitters rely on standardized methodologies to dial in a customer’s most ergonomic riding position.

McCormack is one of the foremost instructors in the sport, a Boulder, Colorado–based skills-book author, bike fitter, and coach with more than two decades of experience.

The fitter you are, the longer you’re expected to live, and there’s no evidence whatsoever that the pattern reverses once you get really, really fit.

Those measures include using ear savers, pantyhose or mask fitters, or putting a cloth mask over a medical mask.

Normally, the fitter you are, the lower your heart rate will be—generally a good thing as it indicates that your heart muscle doesn’t need to work as hard to maintain a steady beat.

I then convinced a friend fitter than I am to give it a go on his own system.

My dad was a sprinkler fitter and he was in the union, so we moved around every three years for his job.

The party's leader, Naftali Bennett, is an American-born centi-millionaire who resembles a younger, fitter Sheldon Adelson.

Kidon operatives are even more innovative, braver, and physically fitter than other Mossad men and women.

The encounters ended when his father, a pipe-fitter, moved the family to Mississippi.

The Princess was pale and thin; and, though dressed superbly, seemed fitter for her chamber.

He has seen nothing but Corsican service; well, he is the fitter to command an army of banditti.

Madame Malmaison had always been a little proud of the beauty and grace and sweetness of her fitter-on.

In such, or fitter words, does Camille evoke the Elemental Powers, in this great moment.

There was no fitter way in which he could have expressed his contempt.

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