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  • noun Plural form of repairer.

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Examples

  • Quoting Isaiah, the Rev. Daughtry tells us that we "will be called the repairers of the broken wall, the restorers of cities in which to dwell."

    Mayhill Fowler: Democratic Convention Interfaith Sunday 2008

  • The tapping or sounding can be done in the way usual with dealers and repairers, that is, by the knuckle joints of the hand rapping round the instrument, but this is sometimes deceptive, the tendons over the bones of the hand interfering and occasionally causing a double sound, and so defeating the efforts at discovery.

    The Repairing & Restoration of Violins 'The Strad' Library, No. XII. Horace Petherick 1879

  • Come then, and kiss the Son; count it your greatest honour to honour Christ, and to lend His fallen truths a lift; come and help to build the old wastes, that ye may be called the repairers of the breach; and then shall all generations call you blessed; then shall God build up your houses, as He did to the Egyptian midwives, for their fearing God, and for their friendship to His people Israel.

    The Covenants And The Covenanters Covenants, Sermons, and Documents of the Covenanted Reformation Various 1876

  • Timpson is the big whale in the pool of key cutters and shoe repairers, which is undoubtedly one of the most fragmented categories in the retail sector with single shop operators making up the majority of participants.

    unknown title 2009

  • On its website, CEAHR claims that the practice of the main Swiss brands is hurting watch repairers and customers.

    Swiss Watch Makers Face Scrutiny in EU Goran Mijuk 2011

  • Financière Richemont SA are refusing to supply spare parts to independent repairers.

    Swiss Watch Makers Face Scrutiny in EU Goran Mijuk 2011

  • Early on there were two other competing repairers, so you used to collect and deliver repairs from nearby villages.

    A letter to … my father 2011

  • All that would count toward GDP in your example would be the money paid to the breakers and repairers.

    Matthew Yglesias » Business Forecasters Say ARRA Worked 2010

  • They were followed by refuse and recyclable material collectors, roofers, electrical power line installers and repairers, truck drivers, and taxi drivers and chauffeurs.

    Some workers face danger for our convenience 2010

  • John Raymond Syvret, chief exec offr, Cammell Laird ship repairers and shipbuilders, for serv the UK maritime sector.

    New Year honours: the full list 2011

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