Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun One who refers.

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

  • noun One who refers.

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

  • noun A person who refers another.

Etymologies

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refer +‎ -er

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Examples

  • The number one referrer is Techmeme, after that Twitter and Overlawyered.

    Scripting News for 3/15/2007 « Scripting News Annex 2007

  • We traditionally track search referrer growth, search term referrer growth as well as related conversion data.

    David Harry - Trail of the Fire Horse 2009

  • Try mining your keyword referrer data for transactional terms related to your market.

    David Harry - Trail of the Fire Horse 2008

  • And now, my site is being hit 15,000 times a day by bullshit spam sites in what is now called referrer spam, which, as far as I can gather, is a way for spammers to get on my "referrer" page on the off-chance that I would ever publish one.

    dotting i's, minding p's, q's 2005

  • And now, my site is being hit 15,000 times a day by bullshit spam sites in what is now called referrer spam, which, as far as I can gather, is a way for spammers to get on my "referrer" page on the off-chance that I would ever publish one.

    barnacles on the ship 2005

  • TIP: Use your web analytics 'keyword referrer' report to see if you are already getting traffic for a search phrase you want to target.

    Search Engine Optimization and Marketing News provided by Cumbrowski.com 2010

  • For the uninitiated, in teh language of teh Web, a referrer is the online resource from whence a visitor happened to arrive at your site.

    Blah, Blah! Technology 2009

  • Publishers may not draw attention to a website displaying Google ads through unwanted traffic from third-party websites, or excessive referrer requests (commonly known as referrer spam).

    Digital Point Forums 2008

  • Someone out there apparently used me as Tivo referrer which is wonderful, and I thank you.

    tivo question yendi 2004

  • What it means is that for all images, return a ‘forbidden’ message instead of the image unless the referrer is my own domain, or some-other-domain.com, or there’s no referrer at all ie, someone cut n pasted a URL into their browser, or into an email or whatever.

    attention plz - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2007

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