Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A person who raises or is occupied in raising anything, as buildings, plants, animals, etc.
- noun That which raises; a device of any kind used for raising, lifting, or elevating anything: as, a water-raiser.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One who, or that which, raises (in various senses of the verb).
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A person or thing that
raises .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun someone concerned with the science or art or business of cultivating the soil
- noun a bridge partner who increases the partner's bid
Etymologies
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Examples
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The History Channel 2010 "Armageddon Week" curtain raiser included a Tuesday night launch of the new series, "Life After People."
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Set up a page on your blog or web site explaining what the fund raiser is all about and what the money will be used to do.
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Curtain raiser, evidently written by Hilda Gilbert, who persuaded London to put his name to it as a favor.
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The president's Thursday fund-raiser is his second for Mr. Giannoulias, who spent last weekend on the South Side at a public birthday party for African-American Rep. Danny Davis, where he ate catfish and potato salad while talking up a new "urban agenda."
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And people wonder why me, a one time McGovern supporter and fund raiser is no longer a liberial and has become a conservative libertarian.
The Great Two-Minute Television Blackout - Bits Blog - NYTimes.com
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The quote from the SF fund raiser is exactly the type of tone Obama must start taking regularly.
Obama Appeals to Working Women, in a Low-Key Way - The Caucus Blog - NYTimes.com
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Our next biggest fund-raiser is the hot dog booth at the annual Hart Days festival.
The Texas Panhandle: Home to Some of America's Best Pheasant Hunting
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As a curtain raiser at the annual radio show held recently in St. Louis, a street car was operated from a distance by a mere man with a radio transmitter in his hand, and a Holstein cow was made to dispense her milk by the medium of radio waves, whether she liked it or not.
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Now that the presidential fund-raiser is over, hard-core porn star Mary Carey doesn't mind the public knowing about one of her secret desires – having sex with the twin daughters of the president.
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If it's a question of writing, as I thought you implied, I am not sure what is meant by the word raiser in the fourth line of page 5, but otherwise I don't see anything to which exception could possibly be taken.
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