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Loitered vs Loiterer - What's the difference?

loitered | loiterer |

As a verb loitered

is (loiter).

As a noun loiterer is

one who loiters, one who lingers or hangs around.

loitered

English

Verb

(head)
  • (loiter)

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    loiter

    English

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To stand about without any aim or purpose; to stand about idly; to linger; to hang around.
    • For some reason, they discourage loitering outside the store, but encourage it inside.
  • * {{quote-news, author=Daniel Taylor, title=David Silva seizes point for Manchester City as Chelsea are checked, work=(The Guardian) (London), date=31 January 2015 citation
    • , passage=Agüero, as usual, was loitering with intent and swung his left foot at the ball. The shot was going wide but Silva was there to apply the decisive touch inside the six-yard area.}}

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    loiterer

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • One who loiters, one who lingers or hangs around.
  • * Episode 16
    • Though unusual in the Dublin area he knew that it was not by any means unknown for desperadoes who had next to nothing to live on to be abroad waylaying and generally terrorising peaceable pedestrians by placing a pistol at their head in some secluded spot outside the city proper, famished loiterers of the Thames embankment category they might be hanging about there or simply marauders ready to decamp with whatever boodle they could in one fell swoop at a moment's notice, your money or your life, leaving you there to point a moral, gagged and garrotted.