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  • noun Plural form of compounder.

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Examples

  • The compeeps, in turn, call the compounders kunophron, ` having the soul of a dog, 'and boukephalos,

    VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol IV No 1 1977

  • Professor Leichen-Bleich (` pale as a corpse ') spoke for the computer people, calling the compounders chairekakoi, ` those who rejoice in evil,' and ethelorhetoroi, ` pretending to be orators. '

    VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol IV No 1 1977

  • Finished goods manufacturers have begun almost exclusively to put full responsibility for fragrance selection for their products in the hands of marketing people rather than technical people or fragrance compounders.

    La insistencia de Jürgen Fauth 2010

  • Four years is a very long time in some circles; in actual time -- real-world time, as that of shopkeepers, insurance sellers, compounders of interest, and so on -- it is perhaps not long at all.

    'Once a Runner' 2009

  • This scattergun approach included the classic purges, leechings and powders, whose secrets were known only to their compounders.26 Doctors believed that, if insanity was only a disease of the brain, then these methods must work as well on lunatics as they did on those suffering more obvious symptoms of physical illness.

    Bedlam Catharine Arnold 2008

  • This scattergun approach included the classic purges, leechings and powders, whose secrets were known only to their compounders.26 Doctors believed that, if insanity was only a disease of the brain, then these methods must work as well on lunatics as they did on those suffering more obvious symptoms of physical illness.

    Bedlam Catharine Arnold 2008

  • Many lead-free heat stabilizers are commercially available, and resin compounders are working proactively with wire and cable companies to encourage their adoption.

    Alternatives for significant uses of lead in Massachusetts 2008

  • Two polymer resin compounders, AlphaGary and Teknor Apex, continue to use DEHP in certain flexible products, though the trend is toward significantly reduced DEHP use as this industry develops other viable plasticizer alternatives.

    Industrial uses of di(1,2-Ethylhexyl)phthalate (DEHP) 2008

  • This scattergun approach included the classic purges, leechings and powders, whose secrets were known only to their compounders.26 Doctors believed that, if insanity was only a disease of the brain, then these methods must work as well on lunatics as they did on those suffering more obvious symptoms of physical illness.

    Bedlam Catharine Arnold 2008

  • Prince of cake-compounders! the mouth liquefies at thy very name.

    Shrewsbury Cakes from Shropshire 2007

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