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US
/ˈfɫoʊtɝ/
]
[ UK /flˈəʊtɐ/ ]
[ UK /flˈəʊtɐ/ ]
NOUN
- a debt instrument with a variable interest rate tied to some other interest rate (e.g. the rate paid by T-bills)
- a wanderer who has no established residence or visible means of support
- a swimmer who floats in the water
- a voter who votes illegally at different polling places in the same election
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spots before the eyes caused by opaque cell fragments in the vitreous humor and lens
floaters seem to drift through the field of vision - an employee who is reassigned from job to job as needed
- an object that floats or is capable of floating
- an insurance policy covering loss of movable property (e.g. jewelry) regardless of its location
How To Use floater In A Sentence
- This particular breed are floaters, not fliers.
- Yes | No | Report from muskiemaster wrote 33 weeks 2 days ago my first artificial bait was a rapala floater in perch pattern it was a little one and I still have it but don't fish it on to many occasions anymore it's more of a good luck charm. It Started With Lure #1
- Mr Luntz went to marginal Milton Keynes to ask floaters for their thoughts, and the issue on which they gave the PM his best score was decisiveness in the face of a security crisis.
- Asked to make the same comparison for the Tories, the floaters nominated a gin-and-tonic and cricket.
- The Tories will try to put the frighteners on the floaters. The British don't need to be hung up about a hung parliament
- This allows the operator to use a long, paddle-shaped device to agitate the contents, mixing the floaters and grease with the solids in the bottom.
- This occurred most often when the physician was on call at night, or when the nurse was a floater.
- Floater fishing is also working well at Poole Bridge Farm where mixers fished over floating pellets is the top tactic.
- Patients present with floaters and diminished visual acuity.
- In the Connecticut River watershed, the alewife floater (Anodonta implicata) relies on anadromous fishes, American shad (Alosa sapidissima), alewife (Alosa pseudoharengus), and blueback herring (Alosa aestivalis), as hosts. Freshwater mussels in North America - factors affecting their endangerment and extinction