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responder

noun
/ɹɪˈspɒndə/UK/ɹɪˈspɑndɚ/CA/ɹɪˈspɔndə/

Etymology

From respond + -er.

  1. derived from respondeō
  2. derived from respondō
  3. derived from respondre
  4. inherited from respounden
  5. formed as responder — “respond + -er”

Definitions

  1. One who responds.

    • As Levinson (1983: 334) points out, signs of dispreference in turn taking include: (a) Delays: notably a pause, or a time gap, before the responder replies to the preceding turn […]

  2. A person who responds to an emergency situation or other summons.

    • 911 responders arrived at the scene within five minutes after the call.

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Derived

autoresponder, first responder, hyperresponder, non-responder, nonresponder, seroresponder, transponder

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for responder. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA