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  • noun Plural form of nester.

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Examples

  • His own article, for example, was accompanied by a preference survey of upper-income apartment dwellers, which highlighted the differences between high-rise and low-rise urban living and identified many downtown residents as what would today be called empty nesters, that is, older couples who had moved back to the city from the suburbs.

    Makeshift Metropolis Witold Rybczynski 2010

  • His own article, for example, was accompanied by a preference survey of upper-income apartment dwellers, which highlighted the differences between high-rise and low-rise urban living and identified many downtown residents as what would today be called empty nesters, that is, older couples who had moved back to the city from the suburbs.

    Makeshift Metropolis Witold Rybczynski 2010

  • His own article, for example, was accompanied by a preference survey of upper-income apartment dwellers, which highlighted the differences between high-rise and low-rise urban living and identified many downtown residents as what would today be called empty nesters, that is, older couples who had moved back to the city from the suburbs.

    Makeshift Metropolis Witold Rybczynski 2010

  • We're pretty sure these birds are ground nesters, which is going to create problems when the yard gets mowed.

    wild backyard kingdom Gwenda 2004

  • The egrets, herons, and ibis are colonial nesters, that is, they nest together in colonies.

    www.appeal-democrat.com - News : 2009

  • -- Brett Arends WSJ. com No More Free Agents The recession is driving more American workers to become workplace "nesters," staying with the same employer for as long as possible, according to a study released last week.

    Picking Stocks? Try Spotting the Turkeys. Nikki Waller 2010

  • -- Brett Arends WSJ. com No More Free Agents The recession is driving more American workers to become workplace "nesters," staying with the same employer for as long as possible, according to a study released last week.

    Picking Stocks? Try Spotting the Turkeys. Nikki Waller 2010

  • -- Brett Arends WSJ. com No More Free Agents The recession is driving more American workers to become workplace "nesters," staying with the same employer for as long as possible, according to a study released last week.

    Picking Stocks? Try Spotting the Turkeys. Nikki Waller 2010

  • They even discovered and visited several pioneer families -- "nesters" in the language of the cowpunchers and stockmen -- who welcomed the Eastern girls with vast curiosity.

    Ruth Fielding in the Great Northwest Or, The Indian Girl Star of the Movies Alice B. Emerson

  • Would not the country in a few years swarm with settlers ( "nesters" as we called small farmers), and would they not of course first select the land where water was shallow?

    Ranching, Sport and Travel Thomas Carson

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