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US
/ɪkˈstɝməˌneɪtɝ/
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[ UK /ɛkstˈɜːmɪnˌeɪtɐ/ ]
[ UK /ɛkstˈɜːmɪnˌeɪtɐ/ ]
NOUN
- someone who exterminates (especially someone whose occupation is the extermination of troublesome rodents and insects)
How To Use exterminator In A Sentence
- However, it may, perhaps, be necessary to describe how to make this machine or clap-net -- fit only for dealers or exterminators. Practical Taxidermy A manual of instruction to the amateur in collecting, preserving, and setting up natural history specimens of all kinds. To which is added a chapter upon the pictorial arrangement of museums. With additional instructions in modelling a
- Indeed we should be mutually justified in this exterminatory war upon each other, full as much as you are in the unprovoked persecution of your present countrymen, on account of the conduct of men of the same name in other times. Paras. 225-249
- The ultimate evolutionary victory, on the theistic hypothesis, does not go to the most ruthless exterminators and most fecund replicators.
- After the banning of DDT and other harsh pesticides, exterminators have had to rely on something called Integrated Pest Management, an “environmentally sensitive,” multipronged approach. Dog Bites Bug
- The former exterminator drove the loony Clinton impeachment, pushed the nutty Terri Schiavo legislation, gutted the House ethics committee, engaged in gerrymandering schemes, enhanced the pay-to-play political culture and made the Republican Party so sulfurously partisan, ethically suspect and God-centric that voters recoiled. Bill Mann: ABC-TV "Dances" Its Way to Public Disgrace With DeLay
- At the centre of National Socialism was a regime of murderous racial annihilation - its impact is to be found in the appalling realization of these exterminatory ambitions.
- Ten years after writing that, Churchill led the way in cruel, brutish, and exterminatory war-making against women and children, partly thanks to his uncompromising personality, partly thanks to what was seen as the logic of the situation. Churchill and His Myths
- He'd hear on hate radio -- there was a Rwandan radio station that just propagated exterminatory propaganda about the Tutsi "cockroaches," they called them. A Problem From Hell: America and the Age of Genocide
- Chapter 2 of this paper introduces the characteristic of acoustic feedback signal and the principle of automatic feedback exterminator.
- The cost to have an exterminator catch a few rodents should not be prohibitive.