onsetter
English
Etymology 1
on + setter
Noun
onsetter (plural onsetters)
- (mining, historical, Britain, dialectal, Northern England) A worker at the bottom of a mineshaft who exchanges the empty and full corves.
Etymology 2
onset + -er
Noun
onsetter (plural onsetters)
- (medicine) One who undergoes the onset of a condition.
- 2008, Anna Hyun, Factors Associated with Stability and Change in Offending Among School Enrolled Adolescents and Their Transitions into Emerging Adulthood
- 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
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