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  • noun A student of ethics; a writer on ethics.

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  • noun rare An ethicist.

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  • noun a philosopher who specializes in ethics

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  • Railroad telegraphers' abbreviated jargon meaning "Will shippers bear expense of cooperage?" --US Railway Association, Standard Cipher Code, 1906.

    ethicist

    January 22, 2013