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rewriters

rewriters is the plural of rewriter.

Meaning of rewriter

Noun

rewriter (plural rewriters)

  1. One who, or that which, rewrites.
    • On the threshold of 1984, Communist rewriters of history have scored a significant victory in their longtime effort to erase inconvenient individuals and events from the chronicle of modern times.1983 November 20, Haskell Nordon, “ON JAMES MICHENER'S 'POLAND'”, in The New York Times
  2. Part of a compiler that makes a second pass to fix the generated object code by implementing postconditions, patching in calls or pointers to point to the correct locations, etc.

Questions about rewriters

What is rewriters the plural of?
Rewriters is the plural of rewriter.

Words near rewriters in the dictionary

  1. rewriteable
  2. rewrited
  3. rewriteman
  4. rewritemen
  5. rewriter
  6. rewriters
  7. rewrites
  8. rewrites history
  9. rewriting
  10. rewriting history
  11. rewritings

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Adapted from Wiktionary: rewriters (page history and authors); rewriter (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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