Definitions for floaters

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floaters float·er

Spelling: [floh-ter]

IPA: /ˈfloʊ tər/

Floaters is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 514 anagrams from letters in floaters (aeflorst).

Definitions for floaters

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 floaters

First recorded in 1710-20; float + -er¹

Examples for floaters

The backs then receive three floaters at 80, in each of which they remain one week.

And the evidence closes with Col. Dudley's direction to organize "the floaters in blocks of five."

Four or five "floaters" seen with equally good results kept the balance of power on the Democratic side on election day.

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.

It was just that Nat hated farming; that he liked to rove and take a floaters fortune.

We were floating down the Rhine in the society of our friends, two hundred and fifty other floaters, and a string band.

Weve got beyond all the floaters, Jack, he remarked, and anyway my eyes begin to feel the strain.

The dense city blocks were convenient lodging places for "floaters."

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

But the influx of tourists and "floaters" had indicated to him a less arduous form of labor.