treater
English edit
Etymology edit
Noun edit
treater (plural treaters)
- One who or that which treats.
- 2014, Martin Fleishman, The Casebook of a Residential Care Psychiatrist, page 58:
- I don't know why I do things like that except that sometimes I think that the principal difference between the treater and the treatee is that the treater is in possession of the keys, if only in a symbolic sense […]
- A vessel used to treat oil-water emulsions by any of several mechanisms so that the oil can be accepted by the pipeline or transport.