Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun One that changes something.
  • noun A device that causes each of a series of audio or audiovisual recordings to be played automatically.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun One who keeps a change-house.
  • noun One who changes or alters the form of anything.
  • noun One who is employed in changing and discounting money; a money-changer.
  • noun One given to change; one who is inconstant or fickle.

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

  • noun One who changes or alters the form of anything.
  • noun One who deals in or changes money.
  • noun One apt to change; an inconstant person.
  • noun an electronic device which changes one replaceable medium for another, such as a record changer, which can store several records and move each one automatically to the playing table; or a CD changer, whch can store multiple compact disks and move each one to the reading slot, in a sequence determined by the user.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun Someone or something who changes things.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun an automatic mechanical device on a record player that causes new records to be played without manual intervention
  • noun a person who changes something

Etymologies

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change +‎ -er

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