Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun One who or that which increases.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun One who, or that, increases.

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  • noun One who, or that which, increases.

Etymologies

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increase +‎ -er

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Examples

  • When less than four inches in diameter, they must be enlarged to four inches at a point not less than one foot below the roof surface by an "increaser," of not less than nine inches long.

    The Home Medical Library, Volume V (of VI) Kenelm Winslow

  • PD Lawyer appointed as President of the High CourtIn the usual exposition of the incomprehensible realpolitik of the Irish Judicial Appointments process, Mr. Justice Nicholas Kerns (he of renown as the "increaser" of sentences as the presiding Judge in the Court of Criminal Appeal) has been appointed, from a puisine (ordinary member) Judge of the Supreme Court, to the second most important judicial position in the State, namely, the President of the High Court.

    Politics.ie 2009

  • But you never hear that; instead, the public dialogue has been preempted by ideologues who claim Obama is a tax increaser, a Kenyan socialist, etc.

    Michael S. Lofgren: How the Media Enable the Republican Tax Agenda Michael S. Lofgren 2012

  • I have never, ever voted for a tax increase or a tax increaser since, and never will, and have vigorously communicated my views to all who will listen in the intervening decades.

    Coyote Blog » Blog Archive » The Organization of No 2010

  • "He is a tax increaser and he's anti-immigrant," says Grover Norquist of Americans for Tax Reform.

    Unfortunately Alan, Not Homer, Simpson stephen moore 2010

  • "He is a tax increaser and he's anti-immigrant," says Grover Norquist of Americans for Tax Reform.

    Unfortunately Alan, Not Homer, Simpson stephen moore 2010

  • But the last thing a politician wants to do when facing an election -- especially in 2010 or 2012 -- is to be branded with the moniker of being the biggest tax increaser in history.

    The Biggest Tax Increase In U.S. History? 2010

  • The bad physician is "a fraud, a half-hearted worker, a killer with his medicines, a giver of overdoses, an increaser of [sickness]."

    Pestilence and Headcolds: Encountering Illness in Colonial Mexico 2008

  • But the last thing a politician wants to do when facing an election -- especially in 2010 or 2012 -- is to be branded with the moniker of being the biggest tax increaser in history.

    The Biggest Tax Increase In U.S. History? 2010

  • But the last thing a politician wants to do when facing an election -- especially in 2010 or 2012 -- is to be branded with the moniker of being the biggest tax increaser in history.

    The Biggest Tax Increase In U.S. History? 2010

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