onsetter

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English[edit]

Etymology 1[edit]

on +‎ setter

Noun[edit]

onsetter (plural onsetters)

  1. (mining, historical, UK, dialect, Northern England) A worker at the bottom of a mineshaft who exchanges the empty and full corves.

Etymology 2[edit]

onset +‎ -er

Noun[edit]

onsetter (plural onsetters)

  1. (medicine) One who undergoes the onset of a condition.
    • 2008, Anna Hyun, Factors Associated with Stability and Change in Offending Among School Enrolled Adolescents and Their Transitions into Emerging Adulthood:
      Compared to normative stayers, increasing hyperactivity and maltreatment during childhood were associated with a likelihood of being a late onsetter.

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