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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun One that rules or manages.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Bearing; carrying; carrying on: now used only in composition: as, vicegerent, belli gerent.
  • noun A ruling power or agency; a doer or performer.

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

  • adjective obsolete Bearing; carrying.

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

  • noun a manager

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[From Latin gerēns, gerent-, present participle of gerere, to manage.]

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