Noun

(en noun)

One who, or that which, imports: especially a person or company importing goods into a country.

India is the world's biggest importer of gold.

The data importer has crashed. Did we receive a corrupted file?

* 1894 , United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Finance, Opinions of Collectors of Customs Concerning Ad Valorem and Specific Rates of Duty on Imports

Tobacco, for instance, shrinks materially by frequent reshippings, and as all goods are warehoused as a convenience to importers , duties should be paid on what the importer receives.

Noun

(en noun)

One who operates.

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A telecommunications facilitator whose job is to establish temporary network connections.

(mathematics) A function or other mapping that carries variables defined on a domain into another variable or set of variables in a defined range.

Chinese whispers.

(informal) A person who is adept at making deals or getting results, especially one who uses questionable methods.

A member of a military Special Operations unit.

(computing) The administrator of a channel or network on IRC.

(linguistics) A kind of expression that enters into an a-bar movement dependency and is said to bind a variable.

In the sentence "What did Bill say he wants to buy?", "what" is an operator , binding a phonetically empty variable.