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  • noun Alternative spelling of galvanizer.

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  • noun a skilled worker who coats iron or steel with zinc
  • noun a leader who stimulates and excites people to action

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Examples

  • Like most top-down, white-created fictions about the African-American experience to wit, The Blind Side it takes a white perspective, offers a white protagonist as the galvaniser of events and fairly reeks of self-congratulation, cultural tourism and historical revisionism.

    The Help: the latest guilt-edged Hollywood history lesson 2011

  • Without them he is exposed as shallow and not the script free galvaniser he is portrayed as.

    The Coffee House | Politics and News Discussion Forum 2010

  • Delta may be listed and headquartered in London but the steel engineer and galvaniser that was once one of Britain's biggest metal bashers no longer does any business here.

    Top stories from Times Online 2010

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