Definition of Spotter

1. Noun. A worker employed at a dry-cleaning establishment to remove spots.

Generic synonyms: Employee

2. Noun. A worker employed to apply spots (as markers or identifiers).
Generic synonyms: Employee
Derivative terms: Spot

3. Noun. A person employed to keep watch for some anticipated event.
Exact synonyms: Lookout, Lookout Man, Picket, Scout, Sentinel, Sentry, Watch
Generic synonyms: Security Guard, Watcher, Watchman
Derivative terms: Look Out, Spot, Watch

4. Noun. Someone who is the first to observe something.
Exact synonyms: Discoverer, Finder
Generic synonyms: Beholder, Observer, Perceiver, Percipient
Specialized synonyms: Co-discoverer
Derivative terms: Discover, Find, Find, Find, Find, Spot

Definition of Spotter

1. n. One who spots.

Definition of Spotter

1. Noun. A person who observes something. ¹

2. Noun. (military) A member of a sniper team. ¹

3. Noun. (weightlifting gymnastics climbing) A person who keeps watch of the person performing an activity, in order to help them should they be unable to complete it. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Spotter

1. one that spots [n -S] - See also: spots

Lexicographical Neighbors of Spotter

spotted nothuras
spotted owl
spotted ray
spotted redshank
spotted salamander
spotted sandpiper
spotted sea trout
spotted sickness
spotted skunk
spotted squeateague
spotted sunfish
spotted water hemlock
spotted weakfish
spotted wolffish
spottedness
spotter (current term)
spotters
spottier
spotties
spottiest
spottily
spottiness
spottinesses
spottings
spottle
spottles
spotty
spotweld
spousage

Literary usage of Spotter

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. American State Trials: A Collection of the Important and Interesting by John Davison Lawson, Robert Lorenzo Howard (1918)
"I wanted to satisfy myself whether he was a spotter of the Erie Railroad Company." This doctor tells you he was there hunting up witnesses for his case, ..."

2. The Compiled Labor Laws of the State of Nevada: 1919 by Nevada, Robert F. Cole (1919)
"... Service Article 2—False Representation Regarding Wages and Conditions Article 3—Detective or spotter Causing Discharge of Employees Article 4—Employers ..."

3. The Conductor and Brakeman by Order of Railway Conductors and Brakemen (1885)
"some little inequality here; charges have been preferred by some spy or spotter and are considered as truth or facts: no going behind the" ..."

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