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malingerers

malingerers is the plural of malingerer.

Meaning of malingerer

Noun

malingerer (plural malingerers)

  1. 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

Questions about malingerers

What is malingerers the plural of?
Malingerers is the plural of malingerer.

Words near malingerers in the dictionary

  1. Maling
  2. Malingao
  3. malinger
  4. malingered
  5. malingerer
  6. malingerers
  7. malingering
  8. malingerings
  9. malingeror
  10. malingerors
  11. malingers

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