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terminologist

US/ˌtɝ.məˈnɑ.lə.d͡ʒɪst/

terminologist noun: a person who studies and uses terminology, especially in professional translation project management.

Noun

terminologist (plural terminologists)

  1. A person who studies and uses terminology, especially in professional translation project management.
    • [T]ranslation practice during training should, at least in part, be organised in projects where each student has the chance to play various roles: that of client, of revisor, of terminologist, of documentation assistant, of free-lancer, of in-house translator working for a translation company, etc.2005, Christiane Nord, edited by Martha Tennent and Benjamins Translation Library, Training for the New Millennium: Pedagogies for translation and interpreting, page 218

Forms of terminologist

pluralterminologists

Questions about terminologist

What does terminologist mean?
Terminologist means a person who studies and uses terminology, especially in professional translation project management.
What part of speech is terminologist?
Terminologist is a noun.
How do you pronounce terminologist?
Terminologist is pronounced /ˌtɝ.məˈnɑ.lə.d͡ʒɪst/ (US).
What is the plural of terminologist?
The plural of terminologist is terminologists.

Words near terminologist in the dictionary

  1. terminological inexactitudes
  2. terminologicality
  3. terminologically
  4. terminologies
  5. terminologisation
  6. terminologist
  7. terminologists
  8. terminologization
  9. terminologizations
  10. terminology
  11. terminomic

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