floater

[ floh-ter ]

/ ˈfloʊ tər /

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noun

a person or thing that floats.

Informal. a person who is continually changing his or her place of abode, employment, etc.

an employee without a fixed job assignment: One of our officers works as a floater, filling in when someone is out.

U.S. Politics. a voter not attached to any party, especially a person whose vote may be purchased.

a person who fraudulently votes, usually for pay, in different places in the same election.

a speck or string that appears to be drifting across the eye just outside the line of vision, caused by cells or cell fragments in the vitreous humor registering on the retina; musca volitans.

Also called floating policy. Insurance. a policy that insures movable personal property, covering a loss in any location.

Finance. any security or note that has a floating rate.

Medicine/Medical Slang. a corpse found floating in a body of water.

Animal Behavior. a territorial animal that has been unable to claim a territory and is forced into undefended, marginal areas with limited resources.

Australian. a meat pie served in a plate of gravy or pea soup.

Origin of floater

First recorded in 1710–20; float + -er¹

Words nearby floater

floatage, floatation, floatboard, floatcut file, floatel, floater, floaters, floating, floating assets, floating cartilage, floating charge

Example sentences from the Web for floaters

These floaters that lie with deck almost awash will stand more hammering than a mud fort.

The Mystery |Stewart Edward White and Samuel Hopkins Adams
But the influx of tourists and "floaters" had indicated to him a less arduous form of labor.

Roosevelt in the Bad Lands |H. Hagedorn.
They next enter the handlers (40-55) rounds of eight pits, six floaters and two dusters.

Animal Proteins |Hugh Garner Bennett
The great majority of floaters and illegal voters who were indicted never faced a trial jury.

The Boss and the Machine |Samuel P. Orth

The water for as far as I could see was filled with buoys and glass balls (floaters to hold the nets) enclosed in netted ropes.

The Land of the Long Night |Paul du Chaillu

British Dictionary definitions for floaters

floater

/ (ˈfləʊtə) /

noun

a person or thing that floats

any of a number of dark spots that appear in one's vision as a result of dead cells or fragments in the lens or vitreous humour of the eye

US and Canadian

a person of no fixed political opinion
a person who votes illegally in more than one district at one election
a voter who can be bribed

Also called: floating policy US and Canadian insurance a policy covering loss or theft of or damage to movable property, such as jewels or furs, regardless of its location

US informal a person who often changes employment, residence, etc; drifter

Australian a loose gold- or opal-bearing rock

Australian (esp in Adelaide) a meat pie in a plate of pea soup

Medical definitions for floaters

floaters

[ flō′tər ]

pl.n.

Specks or small threads in the visual field, usually perceived to be moving, that are caused by minute aggregations of cells or proteins in the vitreous humor of the eye.

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