malingerer
/məˈlɪŋɡəɹə/
malingerer noun: a person who malingers.
Noun
malingerer (plural malingerers)
- A person who malingers.
- It is telling, in this context of rising rates of mental illness, that New Labour committed itself, early in its third term in government, to removing people from Incapacity Benefit, implying that many, if not most, claimants are malingerers.2009, Mark Fisher, chapter 5, in Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative?, Zero Books, →ISBN, page 37
- Synonyms:
- goldbrick, one of his majesty's bad bargains, pseudopatient
malingerer meaning in Tamil and Malayalam
malingerer in Tamil
- பாசாங்குப் பேர்வழி
malingerer in Malayalam
- shirker, idler, layabout
- കള്ളദീനക്കാരൻ, ജോലിചെയ്യാതെ ഒഴിഞ്ഞുമാറിക്കളയുന്നവൻ, പടുപാഴൻ, കള്ളവേലക്കാരൻ, മടിയൻ, അകർമ്മകൃത്ത്
Synonyms of malingerer
Forms of malingerer
| plural | malingerers |
|---|---|
| alternative form | malingeror |
Origin of malingerer
From malinger + -er.
Questions about malingerer
- What does malingerer mean?
- Malingerer means a person who malingers.
- What is malingerer in Tamil?
- Malingerer in Tamil is பாசாங்குப் பேர்வழி. See Malingerer meaning in Tamil.
- What part of speech is malingerer?
- Malingerer is a noun.
- How do you pronounce malingerer?
- Malingerer is pronounced /məˈlɪŋɡəɹə/ (UK).
- What is the plural of malingerer?
- The plural of malingerer is malingerers.
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Adapted from Wiktionary: malingerer (page history and authors); malingerer (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); malingerer (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license). 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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