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referrer

  • a word derived from refer.
    refer
    verb (used with object)
    to direct for information or anything required.

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A lower nightly rate plus resort fee reduces what the resort must pay to the referrer.

From Seattle Times ● Jan. 18, 2023

She acts more as a referrer than a closer, directing her audiences to local health department websites and pointing to the role of Dr. Kizzy Corbett, a Black immunologist, in developing the vaccine.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 25, 2021

Andrew J. Pincus, a lawyer for Google, said that issue was not part of the case, which concerned what he called “the referrer header.”

From New York Times ● Oct. 31, 2018

Much of the fear comes down to this: Facebook has already established itself as more important than even Google as a referrer of traffic to online publications.

From The Verge ● May 13, 2015

Twitter was by far our largest referrer, outpacing even Hacker News by a large margin.

From Inc ● Apr. 23, 2013