Repeater

Quick meaning: Repeater is a noun meaning One who or that which repeats.

Meaning

One who or that which repeats.

More Meanings

1. (education) A student repeating a course, class, or grade.
2. (medicine) A patient who repeatedly presents with the same symptoms.
3. (marketing) A consumer who repeatedly purchases the same goods or services.
4. (US) One who votes more than once at an election.
5. (ufology) A person who regularly sees unexplained sightings of paranormal phenomena.
6. (firearms, dated) A gun that has a store of cartridges and does not need reloading after each shot.
7. (telegraphy) A telegraphic instrument for automatically retransmitting a message.

Example Sentences

The pimps and the panders, the cadets and maquereaux… they vote the ticket of the organization; they contribute to the campaign funds; they serve as colonizers and repeaters at the polls.

[…] Colonel Moen was trying to make sense of the radio nets, which had never really been operational let alone secure; our numerous outposts were cobbled together with hand-held Motorolas and too few repeater stations […]

Word Forms

• repeaters

Synonyms for repeater

Depending on context, synonyms include translator, recidivist.

Antonyms for repeater

Common opposites include single-shot.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include recidivist, repetition, repeat, repeatedly, redoubling, multiport.

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