EER
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[air] /ɛər/
adverb, Chiefly Literary.
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a noun-forming suffix occurring originally in loanwords from French (buccaneer; mutineer; pioneer) and productive in the formation of English nouns denoting persons who produce, handle, or are otherwise significantly associated with the referent of the base word (auctioneer; engineer; mountaineer; pamphleteer); now frequently pejorative (profiteer; racketeer).
Compare , 2 , 2 .
/ɛə/
adverb
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(poetic or archaic) a contraction of ever
suffix
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(forming nouns) indicating a person who is concerned with or who does something specified: auctioneer, engineer, profiteer, mutineer
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(forming verbs) to be concerned with something specified: electioneer
variant spelling of ever, now archaic or poetic.
suffix meaning “one who” (operates, produces, deals in); anglicized form of French -ier, from Latin -arius, -iarius; cf. -ary.
An extended entity-relationship model.
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