needer

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needer

(ˈniːdə)

a person who needs something

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needer - a person who wants or needs something; "an owner of many things and needer of none"

wanter

individual, mortal, person, somebody, someone, soul - a human being; "there was too much for one person to do"

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--need 960, needer 1553 (3), needing 1569 (6), needed 1887 (8)

The productivity of deverbal categories and suffixal models within shared-root deverbal paradigms as reflected in the Oxford English Dictionary

Nunna dem cel phone needer. Iman nah work for no C.I.A.

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Ely posit that discussion of information needs is hindered by the lack of an appropriate word for a 'needer. (23) Any attempt to introduce a suitable term is probably best avoided as neologisms can all too easily appear pretentious and contrived.

A barrier to communication? The challenging language of information behaviour

Digital images have a number of advantages from a collection management point of view--they do not, for instance, needer use.

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(19) In a lecture some years later, Levertov said that the poet is doubly present in every poem, as the one who speaks and as the one for whom the speech is destined, "the maker and the needer within the poet" (PIW 45-47).