handler

[hand-ler]

noun

1. a person or thing that handles.

2. Boxing.,  a person who assists in the training of a fighter or is the fighter's second during a fight.

3. a person who exhibits a dog in a bench show or field trial.

handler

¹

/ ˈhændlə /

noun

1. a person, esp a police officer, in charge of a specially trained dog

2. a person who handles some specified thing

   a baggage handler

3. a person who holds or incites a dog, gamecock, etc, esp in a race or contest

4. the trainer or second of a boxer

Handler

²

/ ˈhændlə /

noun

1. Daniel . born 1970, US writer for older children, best known for the macabre humour of his A Series of Unfortunate Events , a sequence of books written in the persona of Lemony Snicket

Word History and Origins

Origin of handler¹

1350–1400; Middle English. See handle, -er ¹

Example Sentences

After their snake handler’s docile specimen has an onset mishap, the real thing slithers into view.

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Perhaps Maria plunges into her yearlong effort to secure long-term care for her mom—getting the insurance company to talk to the third-party records handler, who won’t talk to Kaiser and so forth.

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Far from the madding crowd, not to mention from the alluring presence of his MI6 handler and former lover, Faith Green, Gabriel works away in his cottage on a travel book about the world’s rivers.

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He says that some ransomware gang members sometimes talked about speaking to "their handlers" in the Russian security services, like the FSB.

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With the fall of Saigon in late spring 1975, he is ordered by his North Vietnamese handler to follow the South Vietnamese general into exile and report back on his activities.

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