flagger
noun
a person who holds a flag at the approach to a road construction site or other traffic obstruction and signals motorists to slow down or stop, or to proceed when it is safe to do so.
flaggers
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pluralof flagger.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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The flaggers arrived at 8 a.m. in two different cars.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 1, 2023
Already, Facebook employs thousands of unaccountable flaggers who make subjective, ad hoc decisions on what constitutes acceptable speech.
From Washington Post ● Jul. 9, 2020
Facebook is now assigning a score, on a scale of zero to 1, that ranks each user’s reliability as content flaggers.
From Slate ● Aug. 21, 2018
The flaggers told the outlet that the company had a backlog that may have prevented offending videos, including those involving children, from being swiftly removed.
From The Verge ● Nov. 15, 2017
On reaching their point of destination, which was where the river was less rapid, and its banks sedgy and thickly grown with flaggers and bulrushes, the sport of spearing for eels commenced.
From Handy Andy, Volume One A Tale of Irish Life, in Two Volumes by Lover, Samuel
