prizer

American  

[prahy-zer] / ˈpraɪ zər /

noun

Archaic.

1. a competitor for a prize.

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Etymology

Origin of prizer

First recorded in 1590–1600; prize ¹ + -er ¹

Example Sentences

British-Hungarian writer David Szalay won the Booker Prizer, the high-profile British literary award, for his novel "Flesh", the organisers announced at a ceremony on Monday.

From Barron's

It produced such wildly unreliable results that the company’s lab secretly began using conventional blood-testing machines and methods, even as Holmes continued to hail it as a breakthrough while boasting about lucrative deals with the U.S. military and major drug companies such as Prizer that didn’t really exist.

From Seattle Times

Amir Emamifar, the chief pharmacy officer, had been tracking the delivery as it made its way from Prizer’s plant in Kalamazoo, Mich., to the main North Broad Street campus, where it was divided, with some purple-topped vials sent on, under police escort, to two other vaccine administration sites.

From Washington Post

Other books recommended during the discussion by book-club members: the 1987 Man Booker Prizer winner “Moon Tiger” by Penelope Lively, set before, during and after World War II, and Connie Willis’ “Blackout” and “All Clear,” a Hugo and Nebula Award-winning two-volume science-fiction novel of time travel.

From Seattle Times

“It holds his estimate and dignity as well wherein ’tis precious of itself as in the prizer.”

From Literature