Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun One who or that which disseminates or spreads by propagation.

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

  • noun One who, or that which, disseminates, spreads, or propagates.

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  • noun One who, or that which, disseminates.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun someone who spreads the news

Etymologies

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disseminate +‎ -or

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Examples

  • Now everyone with an online account has the potential to become his or her own news and information procurer and disseminator, the corporate press corpse is panicking, trying to figure out a way to stay relevant.

    Thomas Crampton’s archive disaster 2009

  • Sturges Owen, disseminator of light and apostle to the Lord, stepped to the edge of the steep and commanded his men to bring up the camp outfit.

    THE GOD OF HIS FATHERS 2010

  • Mainstream media: killing the past p2pnet news view Freedom | P2P: - Because everyone with an online account has the potential to become his or her own news and information procurer and disseminator, “the corporate press corpse is panicking, trying to figure out a way to stay relevant,” I said in a post on Saturday.

    Mainstream media: killing the past 2009

  • This is no different for his lone editor or disseminator or government than it is for any of us in this room.

    Yale Political Union: YPU debates "Resolved: Wikileaks should not have published classified documents" Yale Political Union 2010

  • The DJ lineup is pretty impressive too: right now, they don't come much hotter than Bristol future house upstart Julio Bashmore and renowned disseminator of bass-heavy R&B mash-ups Hudson Mohawke.

    Clubs picks of the week 2012

  • As a disseminator of the news, the paper shall observe the decencies that are obligatory upon a private gentleman.

    Wonk Room » George Will’s Lies Live On 2009

  • Arch-priest and disseminator of the small press message/movement, Len Fulton, will tell you: “The raw heft alone of the published work of Hugh Fox is staggering …. the range of his intellectual inquiry is truly Renaissance: archaeology, anthropology, sociology, literary criticism and reviewing, novels, poetry, plays — there is hardly a genre left ‘unfoxed!’”

    hugh fox | icehouse & thirteen keys to talmud « poetry dispatch & other notes from the underground 2009

  • The radio was a powerful disseminator of propaganda, while lightweight and inexpensive 35mm cameras enabled the regime to document its crimes so thoroughly.

    Why Did Germans Embrace Him? A.J. Goldmann 2010

  • Arch-priest and disseminator of the small press message/movement, Len Fulton, will tell you: “The raw heft alone of the published work of Hugh Fox is staggering …. the range of his intellectual inquiry is truly Renaissance: archaeology, anthropology, sociology, literary criticism and reviewing, novels, poetry, plays — there is hardly a genre left ‘unfoxed!’”

    April « 2009 « poetry dispatch & other notes from the underground 2009

  • This is no different for his lone editor or disseminator or government than it is for any of us in this room.

    Yale Political Union: YPU debates "Resolved: Wikileaks should not have published classified documents" Yale Political Union 2010

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