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  • noun One who removes explosive mines.

Etymologies

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demine +‎ -er

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Examples

  • I think back to the opening of CROMAC, the Croatian Mine Action Center, in Sisak, and the woman who became Croatia's first woman deminer.

    Diana's legacy against landmines, Travnik, August 1997 Marian 2007

  • TEBNIN, Lebanon, Aug 18, 2006 AFP – Kneeling in the rubble, the deminer gently handled a tiny metallic tube, trying to defuse one of the thousands of bomblets littering southern Lebanon.

    Think Progress » ThinkFast: August 18, 2006 2006

  • Less than three weeks ago, on November 21st at ten-thirty in the morning, David Licumbi, an experienced humanitarian deminer, was working on the Lucusse Road in Moxico Province, Eastern

    International Campaign to Ban Landmines - Nobel Lecture 1998

  • The implications of this incident go far beyond the tragic death of a deminer, work on this key road has ceased and this will threaten the resettlement of displaced

    International Campaign to Ban Landmines - Nobel Lecture 1998

  • Being a female deminer, she gets a lot of flak from men.

    Guardian Online 2010

  • After cutting away the densest grass and twigs with a clipper, the deminer, equipped with a blast-proof visor and a heavy safety vest, swipes a metal detector repeatedly over a small area -- about 35 times a square metre -- before cutting away the rest of the vegetation.

    Guardian Online 2010

  • VALVUNIYA: An accidental land mine explosion today killed a French deminer in northern Sri

    News 2010

  • Fazel Wahab, a deminer working for OMAR, a humanitarian group working to find and dismantle homemade bombs, said militants attacked the 16-member team near the Torkham border crossing in

    SFGate: Top News Stories By RAHIM FAIEZ 2010

  • Slow and steady: A deminer can cover about 40m2 in a day's work, leaving the three NGOs working in mine-clearing operations in Mozambique with a lot of ground to cover.

    Guardian Online 2010

  • She was quickly promoted from deminer to paramedic.

    Guardian Online 2010

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