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- noun Alternative spelling of
galvanizer .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a skilled worker who coats iron or steel with zinc
- noun a leader who stimulates and excites people to action
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Examples
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Like most top-down, white-created fictions about the African-American experience to wit, The Blind Side it takes a white perspective, offers a white protagonist as the galvaniser of events and fairly reeks of self-congratulation, cultural tourism and historical revisionism.
The Help: the latest guilt-edged Hollywood history lesson 2011
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Without them he is exposed as shallow and not the script free galvaniser he is portrayed as.
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Delta may be listed and headquartered in London but the steel engineer and galvaniser that was once one of Britain's biggest metal bashers no longer does any business here.
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