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(n)
A person who writes, or produces literary work; an author can refer to themselves as "the writer".
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The person, place, or thing from which something (information, goods, etc.) comes or is acquired.
One who, or that which, generates, begets, causes, or produces.
The quality or state of being an author; the function or dignity of an author.
An author of novels.
A person who submits (e.g. a paper for publication).
An official report or statement, such as a government press release or the report of a conference.
Well-educated, literary people; intellectuals who are interested in literature.
(adj)
(of a publication) Issued for sale to the public
(uncountable) The concept or state of exchanging data or information between entities.
A person at a newspaper, publisher or similar institution who edits stories and/or decides which ones to publish.
An individual who has been granted personhood; usually a human being.
(uncountable) Graphism of symbols such as letters that express some meaning.
One who signs their name (applies their signature to something).
Something or someone which creates or makes something.
One who invents, either as a hobby or as an occupation.
One who writes for the screen, who writes drama for film or television; especially a professional who knows the conventions appropriate to such work.
One who signs or has signed something.
Someone who originates, creates or founds something.
A journalist who investigates, edits and reports news stories for newspapers, radio and television.
One who researches.
A collection of sheets of paper bound together to hinge at one edge, containing printed or written material, pictures, etc.
(v)
(transitive) To bring into existence; (sometimes in particular:)
A person who types, a clerical worker who writes letters, etc., using a typewriter.
A writer and creator of theatrical plays.
A person who designs something, or who designs things as a profession.
Alternative form of coauthor. [An author who collaborates with another to write something.]
One who registers something or is registered.
Someone who makes; a person or thing that makes or produces something.
Alternative spelling of cosponsor. [A joint sponsor.]
(computing) A software developer; a person or company who creates or modifies computer software.
(law) A witness; especially one who gives information under oath, in a deposition concerning facts known to him or her.
One who initiates.
A person who creates art.
Someone who sends.
(parliamentary procedure) someone who makes a formal motion
One who supports something; an advocate.
A person or organization that pays all or part of the cost of an event, publication, media program, etc., usually in exchange for advertising.
A person who asks questions, or who conducts an official enquiry.
A person who produces articles published in a newspaper, magazine, online publication, etc.
The beginning of something.
One who makes an offer to another; someone who presents something to another for acceptance or rejection.
One who, or that which, makes a request.
One who owns something.
(with "the") Everything or everything that is available or possible; especially, all available toppings on food.
(law, politics) A person appointed by a deliberative body to investigate an issue or a situation, and report back to that body.
Someone who or something that moves.
Obligated or locked in (often, but not necessarily, by a pledge) to some course of action.
(archaic) The individual who bears the responsibility for something.
One who claims; one who makes a claim.
Someone who transfers his property to another.
One who applies for something; one who makes a request; a petitioner.
Especially, one who composes music.
A person who invests money in order to make a profit.
Something that is owned.
A person who acts a part in a theatrical play or (later) in film or television; a dramatic performer.
(law) Someone who presents a petition to a court.
A person who prepares drafts.
(law, UK historical, otherwise current) A party bringing a suit in civil law against a defendant; accuser.
One who makes complaint, one who complains.
(trust law) A person who settles property on express trust for the benefit of beneficiaries.
(music) A musician who composes songs; especially writing the song's lyrics and/or creating a melody or a tune for the song.
A draftsman or draftswoman.
A person who drafts legal documents.
One who is highly skilled at one's trade; an artisan or artificer.
One who perpetrates; especially, one who commits an offence or crime.
A skilled manual worker who uses tools and machinery in a particular craft.
The person or thing at fault for a problem or crime.
(law) A verdict of a judge or jury on a defendant judged to have committed a crime.
One who infringes.
One who violates (a rule, a boundary, another person's body, etc.); offender
A person who commits an offense against the law, a lawbreaker.
One who abuses someone or something.
The act of complaining.
(US) conscripted
(ambitransitive) To form letters, words or symbols on a surface in order to communicate.
(obsolete) sandalwood, especially the red sandalwood
A male given name from Ancient Greek, variant of Colin.
A male given name transferred from the surname.
A surname from Malayalam.
A surname.
Émile Zola, French writer
the commercial activity of selling and shipping goods to a foreign country
(by extension) A group dedicated to a particular cause or interest.
One who composes essays; a writer of short compositions.
A person who writes poems.
One whose occupation is journalism, originally only writing in the printed press.
A person who relates stories through one medium or another to an audience.
One who uses words skilfully.
A person with writing skills; a journalist or other author.
Someone who writes; a draughtsperson; a writer for another; especially, an official or public writer; an amanuensis, secretary, notary, or copyist.