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getters-up

getters-up is the plural of getter-up.

Meaning of getter-up

Noun

getter-up (plural getters-up)

  1. (colloquial) One who organises, sets up or arranges for anything.
    • After considering him attentively, I recongised in him a diligent getter up of miscellaneous works, that bustled off well with the trade.1819 July 31, Geoffrey Crayon [pseudonym; Washington Irving], “The Art of Book Making”, in The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent., number II, New York, N.Y.: […] C[ornelius] S. Van Winkle, […]...

Questions about getters-up

What is getters-up the plural of?
Getters-up is the plural of getter-up.

Words near getters-up in the dictionary

  1. getter-up
  2. gettered
  3. gettering
  4. getterings
  5. getters
  6. getters-up
  7. gettest
  8. getteth
  9. Gettier
  10. Gettier case
  11. Gettier cases

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Adapted from Wiktionary: getters-up (page history and authors); getter-up (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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