repairer

== English == === Etymology === From repair + -er. === Pronunciation === === Noun === repairer (plural repairers) A person who repairs things. 1987, Nadine Gordimer, A Sport of Nature, New York: Alfred Knopf, p. 168, Where the European city grid of right angles was overgrown and broken up by the purposeful tangle of African pursuits—the shortest point-to-point meander taken on foot between barbers and fruit-sellers, scribes and bicycle repairers—to be white was to feel invisible; only a sensuous self-assurance, while it lasted, could counter that. ==== Synonyms ==== repairperson; translator (historical) ==== Hyponyms ==== repairman, repairwoman ==== Translations ==== === Anagrams === Perreira, rare-ripe, rareripe == French == === Etymology === From Old French repairier (“to return home”). Doublet of rapatrier. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ʁə.pɛ.ʁe/ ~ /ʁə.pe.ʁe/ === Verb === repairer (obsolete, chiefly of an animal) to go home ==== Conjugation ==== ==== Derived terms ==== repaire (noun) == Old French == === Verb === repairer alternative form of repairier ==== Conjugation ==== This verb conjugates as a first-group verb ending in -er. Old French conjugation varies significantly by date and by region. The following conjugation should be treated as a guide.