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- noun dated, historical, UK A title or grade of clerk in the British Civil Service.
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- noun one who makes abstracts or summarizes information
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Examples
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It's a tricky and very complicated area, so you'll need to hire a professional title abstractor or title examiner to carry out the task.
xml's Blinklist.com 2008
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So very, very many reporters/republishers of these studies fail to note the data collection methods when they summarize results and as a former abstractor of statistical publications, believe me, this is the FIRST thing I look for when I hear a number cited.
AIDS in Africa: Too Bad to Be True, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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It was hard to fathom the ultimate plans of such an abstractor, who would not dare to use the machine in any public way and could scarcely sell it.
Dave Dashaway and His Hydroplane Roy Rockwood
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Miss SHEILA KAYE-SMITH continues to be the chronicler and brief abstractor of Sussex country life.
Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 159, 1920-09-08 Various
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Maps belonging to a local abstractor helped not a whit.
Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Arkansas Narratives, Part 6 Work Projects Administration
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Jan. 3, 1909; Phi Kappa Alpha; teacher 1899; hotel work 1900-04; lawyer Corpus Christi Texas 1906-18; abstractor, Shelby, 1918 -; Mason.
Alumni History of the University of North Carolina 1793-1962 1924
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The king is the artist, you are the guest, I am the abstractor of quintessences, the cook.
Earthwork out of Tuscany Being Impressions and Translations of Maurice Hewlett Maurice Hewlett 1892
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This last was the only clause in the report which pointed in any way toward this man being the possible abstractor of the Great Mogul, as Mr. Grey's famous diamond was called, and the latter was too just a man and too much of a fancier in this line himself to let a fact of this kind weigh against the favorable nature of the rest.
The Woman in the Alcove Anna Katharine Green 1890
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Jack Redhill, the abstractor of the portmanteau, and his old shipmate, who was accompanying the captain in some dependent capacity, but who received his master's confidences and orders with respectful devotion.
Trent's Trust, and Other Stories Bret Harte 1869
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Democrat-Gazette, Inc. abstractor/record research Individuals to apply must be de ...
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