Thruster

Quick meaning: Thruster is a noun meaning One who thrusts, who pushes or stabs.

Meaning

One who thrusts, who pushes or stabs.

More Meanings

1. A device for propelling an object, especially a spacecraft or a ship (marine vessel).
2. (nautical) A bow thruster or a stern thruster.
3. An ambitious, driven person; a go-getter.
4. (surfing) A surfboard (usually a shortboard) with three fins of approximately equal size, one centred at the back, one on each side about 25cm forward and out near the rails.

Example Sentences

His hi-spec gear suggests that he's a corporate high-flyer and he's definitely a bit of a thruster, very much in control, taking care of business.

The executive is a thruster with ideas to expand or improve the business and his superiors fail to react—for whatever reason—and do not give acceptable explanations.

Nevertheless osteopaths are coming to regard themselves not so much as thrusters, or even as repositioners, of bones, but as releasers of the patient's own recuperative forces.

Word Forms

• thrusters

Synonyms for thruster

Depending on context, synonyms include pusher.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include pusher, shover, stroker, propeller, hurtler, impulsor.

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