picker

American  

[pik-er] / ˈpɪk ər /

noun

• pickers
  plural

1. someone or something that picks.

2. a special tool or machine for picking fruit, vegetables, etc., from their plants.

3. a machine that picks fibers.

4. a person who gathers fruit, flowers, etc.

5. Slang. a player of a stringed instrument, especially a banjo.

6. Metallurgy. a pointed rod for removing a pattern from a half mold.

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picker British  

/ ˈpɪkə /

noun

1. a person or thing that picks, esp that gathers fruit, crops, etc

2. (in weaving) a person or the part of the loom that casts the shuttle

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Other Word Forms

Noun Inflected Forms

• pickers
  plural

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Etymology

Origin of picker

First recorded in 1520–30; pick ¹ + -er ¹

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Example Sentences

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“It’s really masking what is a quite obvious correction. If you’re a stock picker, or you own anything besides a few select tech names, it can be a big problem.”

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 1, 2026

Ashmore, who has completed numerous murals for businesses, said he had always intended to hire a cherry picker to finish the job, but would not be pressured into "rushing" it.

From BBC ● Aug. 28, 2026

Does it still pay to be a good stock picker?

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 20, 2026

AI cannot make you a better stock picker.

From MarketWatch ● Jun. 1, 2026

Dan Martin brought the cherry picker back to the ground.

From "Frightful's Mountain" by Jean Craighead George

When the first day of the apple harvest rolled around in Washington State last year, the fruit was ripe and the pickers were ready – but the weather had other ideas.

From BBC ● Sep. 30, 2026

But there are optimists too, such as a man who told us his last name was Zhang, standing alongside potato pickers in a field near the data centres.

From BBC ● Sep. 22, 2026

You need some active stock pickers to buy and sell a stock before you can claim, as index-fund supporters, that the current price perfectly reflects all known information about the stock.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 31, 2026

Also read: Stock pickers know they can’t outsmart the market.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 29, 2026

It’s odd, but I didn’t hear a single one of the potato pickers say “By gar,” and they must have seen the pictures and known what is right.

From "Travels with Charley in Search of America" by John Steinbeck

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