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onsetters

onsetters is the plural of onsetter.

Meaning of onsetter

Noun (1)

onsetter (plural onsetters)

  1. (Northern England, UK, dialectal, historical) A worker at the bottom of a mineshaft who exchanges the empty and full corves.

Noun (2)

onsetter (plural onsetters)

  1. One who undergoes the onset of a condition.
    • Compared to normative stayers, increasing hyperactivity and maltreatment during childhood were associated with a likelihood of being a late onsetter.2008, Anna Hyun, Factors Associated with Stability and Change in Offending Among School Enrolled Adolescents and Their Transitions into Emerging Adulthood

Questions about onsetters

What is onsetters the plural of?
Onsetters is the plural of onsetter.

Words near onsetters in the dictionary

  1. onsends
  2. onsens
  3. onset
  4. onsets
  5. onsetter
  6. onsetters
  7. onsetting
  8. onsettings
  9. onshell
  10. onshore
  11. onshored

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