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English
Etymology
From specify + -er.
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specifier (plural specifiers)
- A person or thing that specifies.
2020 May 20, Industry Insider, “An online boost for freight”, in Rail, page 68:The specifiers of the Freightliner network had the foresight to base the rail journey on carrying ISO containers which are 8ft wide and originally 8ft tall (although now increased to a height of 9ft 6ins), with a variety of lengths.
- (linguistics) A component of a phrase that is non-recursive and not found as a sister of the head of the phrase, but rather as a daughter of the maximal projection of the phrase.
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