Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun One who makes researches; one who is engaged in research.

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

  • noun One who conducts research. In the field of scientific research, also called an investigator or scientist.

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

  • noun One who researches.

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

  • noun a scientist who devotes himself to doing research

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Examples

  • Mary Wood, 42, was frantic for work when she applied to the bureau after getting divorced and losing her job as a title researcher in the oil and gas industry in the same week.

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  • Upon logging in, synesthetes can choose to share their data with a researcher; if they do, the researcher is automatically emailed and can log on to examine the results.

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  • The end of my scholarship approached, and one kind older researcher from the same institute decided to help me.

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  • UCSB brain researcher Jonathan Schooler has an intriguing theory about why our minds wander:

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  • For this reason a family member or researcher is required to request a citation by those criteria, which are usually unknown to them, or to pay a researcher to sort through tens of thousands of pages.

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  • The end of my scholarship approached, and one kind older researcher from the same institute decided to help me.

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  • “The hunting theory is the most accepted, and it appears that for most kites this was indeed the use,” said Dani Nadel, another kite researcher from the University of Haifa, Israel.

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  • The researcher is amused when the President asks whether Republican brains could be modified.

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  • I think Rock, an active researcher, is right on this.

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  • I was a visiting researcher from a US university in Mannheim last Summer.

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