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English
Etymology
From OK + -er.
Noun
OK'er (plural OK'ers)
- Alternative form of okayer (“one who OKs something”).
1949 Summer, Fredson T. Bowers, “Bibliography and the University”, in The Library Chronicle of the Friends of the Library of the University of Pennsylvania, volume 15, number 2, page 45:No matter how technical and seemingly unrelated to any literary use some bibliographical investigation is, all of it is sometime applied. And even if a bibliographer were never anything else, he would justify his existence and his technical studies by serving as the OK’er of basic documents.
1979, Frederick G. Nichols, Frederick G. Nichols’ Memoirs, 1878–1954: The Early View of Business Education, St. Peter, Minnesota: Delta Pi Epsilon, Inc., →ISBN, page 59:In Rochester “Sanky” Mullen was secretary of the school board and the OK’er of ordinary requisitions. He had a reputation for being a bit tough to get requisitions by.
2015 March 1, Dante Ramos, “Don’t sweat, the commas”, in Boston Sunday Globe, volume 287, number 60, page K5:By reputation, no publication is more carefully assembled than The New Yorker, and none applies its own standards so fastidiously. In a fascinating recent essay entitled “Holy Writ,” longtime proofreader Mary Norris notes that at no other magazine is there a position called “page OK’er.”