Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun One that drafts, especially a person who drafts plans or designs or a person who composes a document.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who drafts; one who drafts a document: as, the drafters of the Constitution of the United States.
- noun One employed in a drafting-yard to sort out sheep.
- noun A draft-horse.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun a person who prepares
technical drawings and plans - noun a person who prepares
drafts - noun US a person who writes a
legislative bill
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a writer of a draft
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Examples
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He is known as the drafter, and as such he is not allowed by regulation (during this time frame) to send out that same message he drafted.
Memorandum 1995
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Vickie Jacobson, a 45-year-old computer drafter from Nashville, Tenn., remembers a dream in which she had sex with her boss on a Victorian couch in an old-fashioned parlor.
If You Dream About the Boss... Elizabeth Bernstein 2011
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As a drafter everything should be done in all Caps as a standard, so I use caps lock all of the time.
NumLocker Disables The Caps Lock Key | Lifehacker Australia 2009
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A Type Two drafter need to be utterly ruthless and immune to criticism or appeals to reason.
With regard to the health care rationing bill passing: Don’t get mad. | RedState 2010
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On the grammar front, our bill drafter should consider the effect of using “effect” for “affect.”
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When Harold Brown, 49, was laid off from his job as an interior design drafter in December 2008, he knew that the prospects for reemployment ...
Unemployed Entrepreneurs: In The Absence of Jobs, Some People Create Their Own Laura Bassett 2010
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Former peace prize winners Archbishop Desmond Tutu, the Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama and Charter 77 co-drafter Vaclav Havel have joined those calling for Liu to get the award.
Liu Xiaobo, Top Nobel Prize Contender, Languishes In Chinese Prison AP 2010
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No drafter or ratifier would have included computer coding in a list of useful arts.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Originalism and Linguistic Questions 2010
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When Harold Brown, 49, was laid off from his job as an interior design drafter in December 2008, he knew that the prospects for reemployment were grim.
Unemployed Entrepreneurs: In The Absence of Jobs, Some People Create Their Own Laura Bassett 2010
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By setting the forum in which the disputes are to take place while eliminating class relief the drafter of the contract attempts to insulate itself from consumer lawsuits.
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