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repairer en · NOUN

Pronunciation

• (Southern-England) audio

Etymology

From repair + -er.

Meanings

1. A person who repairs things.
   • Where the European city grid of right angles was overgrown and broken up by the purposeful tangle of African pursuits—the shortest point-to-point meander taken on foot between barbers and fruit-sellers, scribes and bicycle repairers—to be white was to feel invisible; only a sensuous self-assurance, while it lasted, could counter that. 1987, Nadine Gordimer, A Sport of Nature, New York: Alfred Knopf, page 168:
   • And they that shall be of thee shall build the old waste places: thou shalt raise up the foundations of many generations; and thou shalt be called, The repairer of the breach, The restorer of paths to dwell in. 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Isaiah 58:12:
   • The men on the freight trains, who go over the whole length of the road, bow to me as to an old acquaintance, they pass me so often, and apparently they take me for an employee; and so I am. I too would fain be a track-repairer somewhere in the orbit of the earth. 1854, Henry David Thoreau, chapter IV, in Walden, New York: Thomas Y. Crowell, published 1910, pages 151–2:

Forms

Hyponyms

repairman · repairwoman

Synonyms

translator · repairperson

Translations (49)

ru ремо́нтник (person who repairs) · pl fachowiec (person who repairs) · uk ремо́нтниця (person who repairs) · de Reparateur (person who repairs) · nl klusjesman (person who repairs) · tr tamirci (person who repairs) · sv reparatör (person who repairs) · fr dépanneur (person who repairs) · es remendón (person who repairs) · nl hersteller (person who repairs) · hu szerelő (person who repairs) · nb reparatør (person who repairs) · nn reparatør (person who repairs) · fr réparateur (person who repairs) · nrf griyeux (person who repairs) · ro reparator (person who repairs) · it riparatore (person who repairs) · es reparadora (person who repairs) · gd leasachair (person who repairs) · ja 修理工 (person who repairs) · fr réparatrice (person who repairs) · ota تعمیرجی (person who repairs) · cmn 修理者 (person who repairs) · ja 修繕工 (person who repairs) · ru ремо́нтница (person who repairs) · pl konserwator (person who repairs) · hu műszerész (person who repairs) · fi korjaaja (person who repairs) · es reparador (person who repairs) · uk ремо́нтник (person who repairs) · ota مرمتجی (person who repairs) · it riparatrice (person who repairs) · hu karbantartó (person who repairs) · cs opravář (person who repairs) · de Reparateurin (person who repairs) · be рамо́нтніца (person who repairs) · ro reparatoare (person who repairs) · cmn 修理工 (person who repairs) · ar مُصْلِح (person who repairs) · ko 수선공 (person who repairs) · ko 수리공 (person who repairs) · hu ……javító (person who repairs) · pl monter (person who repairs) · mr दुरुस्तीकार (person who repairs) · et parandaja (person who repairs) · be рамо́нтнік (person who repairs) · pl naprawiacz (person who repairs) · fi korjausmies (person who repairs) · pt reparador (person who repairs)