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gadgeteer

American  
[gaj-i-teer] / ˌgædʒ ɪˈtɪər /

noun

  1. a person who invents or is particularly fond of using gadgets.


gadgeteer British  
/ ˌɡædʒɪˈtɪə /

noun

  1. a person who delights in gadgetry

"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

Etymology

Origin of gadgeteer

First recorded in 1935–40; gadget + -eer

Example Sentences

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Bond's gadgeteer, Q, radios in, and Bond delivers the rhetorical goods: "I showed him your watch. It blew his mind."

From Salon • Nov. 27, 2021

While others described Lawson as a gadgeteer with a penchant for engineering, Tremulis told Special Interest Auto, “I’ve always considered him an imagineer - the best of all worlds.”

From Washington Times • Sep. 24, 2016

AL GROSS, 82, visionary gadgeteer whose inventions, including the walkie-talkie, presaged the wireless revolution; in Sun City, Ariz. Gross's two-way radio may have helped Allied agents gain strategic advantage during World War II.

From Time Magazine Archive

Thus Hamburg's Die Welt, in an atypically Teutonic blend of business judgment and sentiment, last week summed up the exit of the grand old gadgeteer of the West German auto industry.

From Time Magazine Archive

He wears a hearing aid and is enough of a gadgeteer to have adapted it to serve as a stethoscope.

From Time Magazine Archive

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