Definitions for floater

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floater float·er

Spelling: [floh-ter]

IPA: /ˈfloʊ tər/

Floater is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 242 anagrams from letters in floater (aeflort).

Definitions for floater

noun

1. a person or thing that floats.
2. Informal. a person who is continually changing his or her place of abode, employment, etc.
3. an employee without a fixed job assignment:
4. U.S. Politics. a voter not attached to any party, especially a person whose vote may be purchased.
5. a person who fraudulently votes, usually for pay, in different places in the same election.
6. 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.
7. Also called floating policy. Insurance. a policy that insures movable personal property, covering a loss in any location.
8. Finance. any security or note that has a floating rate.
9. Medicine/Medical Slang. a corpse found floating in a body of water.
10. Animal Behavior. a territorial animal that has been unable to claim a territory and is forced into undefended, marginal areas with limited resources.
11. Australian. a meat pie served in a plate of gravy or pea soup.

Origin of floater

First recorded in 1710-20; float + -er¹

Examples for floater

This afternoon we passed a floater who had gone by us at New Madrid.

Euripides used almost the same term in floater, for a seaman.

At that instant her floater began to bob fiercely up and down.

When the floater goes under, you will know that a fish is biting at the worm on the hook.

I been along the waterfront long enough t' know that th' lad that picks up a floater gets a reward o' ten dollars from th' city.

He was a financier and a floater of companies which generally paid.

Cameron wasn't a bad chap—he simply hadn't character enough to be bad—he was a floater!

We had to swim good and hard to catch up with our only hope, the floater.

I parked my floater beside the house that had sheltered Kron as long as I had known him.

The floater under him churned a little, but there was no noise.