getter
a person or thing that gets.
any substance introduced into a partial vacuum, as the interior of a vacuum tube or an incandescent lamp, to combine chemically with the residual gas in order to increase the vacuum.
Chiefly Canadian. poisoned bait used to exterminate wolves, gophers, and other pests from farm areas.
Origin of getter
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How to use getter in a sentence
So we end up with professional politicians, type-A go-getters, and electoral dynasties.
Is It Time to Take a Chance on Random Representatives? | Michael Schulson | November 8, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTIf no candidate wins 50 percent of the vote, a second round will be held in April between the top two vote-getters.
It was a very pleasant meeting, helped out with afternoon cocoa and sandwiches that the lunch-getters had prepared.
Winona of the Camp Fire | Margaret WiddemerHer brother was one of America's most brilliant money-getters.
Destiny | Charles Neville BuckWe are called sentimentalists out in the East—at such times as we are not called money-getters.
The Opium Monopoly | Ellen Newbold La Motte
As we have sometimes hypocrites in religion, and demagogues in politics, so there are occasionally misers among money-getters.
The Art of Money Getting | P. T. BarnumGetters-up of clubs of eight copies can afterward add single copies at $2.50 each.
Golden Days for Boys and Girls | Various
British Dictionary definitions for getter
/ (ˈɡɛtə) /
a person or thing that gets
a substance, usually a metal such as titanium, evaporated onto the walls of a vacuum tube, vessel, etc, to adsorb the residual gas and lower the pressure
(tr) to remove (a gas) by the action of a getter
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