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contact tracers

contact tracers is the plural of contact tracer.

Meaning of contact tracer

Noun

contact tracer (plural contact tracers)

  1. A person engaged in contact tracing.
    • Contact tracing was used in Wuhan, where 1,800 teams of five people went house to house, and Ireland last week said it would recruit 1,400 contact tracers.2020 April 7, James Tapper, “Recruit volunteer army to trace coronavirus contacts now, urge top scientists”, in The Guardian

Questions about contact tracers

What is contact tracers the plural of?
Contact tracers is the plural of contact tracer.

Words near contact tracers in the dictionary

  1. contact time
  2. contact times
  3. contact trace
  4. contact traced
  5. contact tracer
  6. contact tracers
  7. contact traces
  8. contact tracing
  9. contact tracings
  10. contact wire
  11. contact wires

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