Definitions

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  • noun A manufacturer of gears.
  • noun A manufacturer of any type of equipment.

Etymologies

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From gear + maker

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Examples

  • It was a seductive idea when the Swedish telecommunications gearmaker Ericsson first came up with it.

    The Long Wait For Bluetooth 2007

  • The Motorola and General Electric vet took the top job at the Toronto-based telecommunications gearmaker a little more than a year ago with one mission: crawl out from under the accounting and management problems left by predecessors John Roth and Frank Dunn.

    Has Nortel Turned Around? 2006

  • Shares in MTNL jumped 9.4 percent to 43.55 rupees, while those in telecoms gearmaker ITI surged 11.3 percent to 27 rupees in a Mumbai market that closed 1.7 percent up.

    Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion 2011

  • Sibal said a committee in his ministry was looking into proposals by the Board for Reconstruction of Public Sector Enterprises BRPSE that had recommended merging telecoms gearmaker ITI with BSNL, or making it a separate unit of BSNL.

    Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion 2011

  • Cisco Systems Inc., the top manufacturer of networking equipment and a competitor to Avaya, slumped 11 percent last year, while rival gearmaker Juniper Networks Inc. dropped 45 percent.

    BusinessWeek.com -- Top News 2012

  • Telcom gearmaker Nortel announced that it will sell its enterprise solutions business to Avaya for

    WN.com - Business News 2010

  • FFIV-Q may not be as big a name as competitor Cisco CSCO-Q, but the smaller Seattle gearmaker could spell upside for investors eager to tap into the IT spending rebound.

    The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed James Rogers 2010

  • Networking gearmaker Juniper just dropped its lawsuit against Light Reading message board users.

    Tech Beat - BusinessWeek 2009

  • Networking gearmaker Juniper just dropped its lawsuit against Light Reading message board users.

    Tech Beat - BusinessWeek 2009

  • Networking gearmaker Juniper just dropped its lawsuit against Light Reading message board users.

    Tech Beat - BusinessWeek 2009

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