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Collins English Dictionary (via Dictionary.com): person who has signed a document such as a treaty or contract or an organization, state, etc, on whose behalf such a document has been signed. Cambridge Dictionaries Online: a person, organization or country which has signed an agreement
Notwithstanding the opening words appropriated from Hittel's definition, Bartlett's definition clearly identifies a bummer as a sycophant in search of a sinecure. But this meaning has largely died out, while Hittel's "Californianism" notions of bummer and bumming remain largely current in the words bum and bumming .
Rentee doesn't apply unless what's being rented is a person, in which case the rentee is the person (slave) being rented. The difference: a tenant or a rentee will never be the owner receiving payment for use. A renter might be. The two different meanings of the word renter can usually be distinguished with the words to and from:
In popular vernacular this person is simply called a . user. And because it's popular vernacular I'll cite Urban Dictionary: user (n.) - a person who uses a friend or aquaintance solely for the purposes of gaining a type of advantage; whether it be: 1) when no one else is around, they need someone (like you) to take them places
An "average" person is a normal person BY DEFINITION. "Normal" means "close to" average (in statistics), but plus or minus. It is this "plus or minus" part that allows "normal" to be NOT average. Even so, it would mean that the deviation from average is a "normal" or usual amount, and not "way out." Share.
3. Sharp, with reference to a person, is typically a reduction of sharp witted, meaning having a quick and discerning intellect. This is probably by analogy to a knife --a mind able to "cut through" to the heart of a matter. It might also mean that the person has keen perceptions ("sharp eyesight", "sharp hearing").
There is a clean word that defines person that is invited: an invitee. However, I can't seem to find a straight definition of either terms that would define a person who invites the invitee. Is it "
2. According to Green's Dictionary of Slang, tool has several meanings. In the current context it would probably mean "a stupid, useless or socially inept person". The first citation for this dates from 1656. I suspect that this meaning is derived from the first meaning under the headword "tool", "the penis", as a literal or figurative bodily ...
cynosure a person or thing that is the center of attention or admiration. The term "lightning rod" can also refer to a person or thing attracts hostile attention: "When he was president of Harvard University, Larry Summers was a lightning rod for feminist criticisms after baldly announcing that women weren't as good as men at the sciences."
A person who made a complaint is a complainant. A person who is being complained about is a complainee. Edit : I've had a good look on the internet and can't find a definition of complainee other than those used in contracts for housing associations (worldwide) and similar not strictly legal enforcement entities, however the word is used very widely in the meaning of the person who is ...