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writer(dictionary)
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writer(medicine)
writer's cramp(medicine)
writer's cramp(dictionary)
writer's block(dictionary)
ghost writer(dictionary)
Writer - Keno(gambling)

writer (iou)



writer noun.
[Old English writere, formed as WRITE verb + -ER1.]
A person who can write or has written something; a person who writes in a specified manner or style. OE.
b. A person who paints words etc. on a sign; a sign-writer. M19.
c. A pen etc. that writes in a specified manner. E20.
M. Russell The pen you've chosen. It's a bad writer.
A functionary whose business or occupation consists in writing; spec. (a) a clerk, esp. in the Navy or in government offices; (b) (chiefly Hist.) a scribe; (c) (chiefly Scot.) a solicitor. OE.
b. Stock Exchange. A broker who makes an option available for purchase; a seller of options. M20.
A person who writes books or produces literary compositions, articles, reports, or other texts; an author; the composer of a book etc. OE.
Modern Painters Many writers on cubism..write as though Cubism were a system of painting waiting to be discovered.
b. The person who is writing. Esp. (as a circumlocution) in the present writer, I. L16.
c. A composer of music, songs, etc. L17.
ellipt. The writings or work of an author. E17.
Hazlitt Able writers..are suffered to moulder in obscurity on the shelves of our libraries. A. Helps I saw..in an American writer a humorous account.
Comb. & phrases: the present writer: see sense 3b above; writer-in-residence a writer holding a residential post in a university etc., in order to share his or her professional insights; writer's block a periodic lack of inspiration afflicting creative writers etc.; writer's cramp a form of muscular cramp or spasm in the hand resulting from excessive writing; writer's writer: whose appeal is primarily to his or her fellow writers; Writer to the Signet Scots Law (a) a clerk employed to prepare writs for the royal signet; (b) a solicitor belonging to the society of solicitors formerly having the exclusive privilege of preparing writs in the Court of Session.
writeress noun (rare) a female writer or author E19.
writerly adjective appropriate to or characteristic of a professional author; consciously literary: M20.
writership noun (chiefly Hist.) the office or position of writer, a clerkship, esp. in the East India Company M18.