Happener - What does it mean?
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One who participates in a happening.
A person who makes things happen.
* 1998 , Russell Hoban, Riddley Walker ,
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A person to whom things happen.
* 1984 , Rex Burns, Strip Search: A Gabe Wager Mystery ,
(often used in the negative) An event that is expected to happen; a plan that is likely to succeed.
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- Goodparley says, 'O no and in deed he aint hes bettern clevver hes a mover hes a happener . '
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- Just as we who believe in God know that there can be no creation without a Creator, we also know that whenever something happens, there is always a happener .
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- "No way! He's not one of these people that do things. There's two kinds of people—the doers and the happeners'. He's a ' happener . You know, things happen to him instead."
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