Definitions
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- n. a person or thing that answers or responds
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
- n. One who answers.
from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. One who answers; in school disputations, the respondent, that is, one who takes the initiative by propounding a thesis which he undertakes to maintain and defend against the objections of the opponents. See respondent.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- n. someone who responds
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Examples
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The other answerer is correct in that you can buy a real one for around 100.00.
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568 – 569 In the Socratic method, the answerer is the one saying things
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Alcibiades: I should say, Socrates, that the answerer was the speaker.
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ALCIBIADES: I should say, Socrates, that the answerer was the speaker.
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The second "answerer"here does a decent job of laying out the case in the general sense, not legal for those allegations and concerns in one place.
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Some questions have already led to research papers naming both the asker and "answerer" as co-authors.
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Still, they ask, and at that point the asker grants the answerer immunity to tell the whole truth.
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Be a treasure to the poor, an admonisher to the rich, an answerer of the cry of the needy, a preserver of the sanctity of thy pledge.
Homa Sabet Tavangar: In Unity Is Our Security: Baha'i Wisdom For Violent Times
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"Oh no, another big decision, another headache, 50 calls to an insurance company, another go-round with the passive-aggressive phone answerer who, even though she's never met me, calls me Freddy as she puts me on hold."
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In the example he cited, the top-rated answerer just happened to be an old acquaintance of mine from back in the alt. books.stephen-king days.
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