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getter

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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
getter/ˈɡɛtə/

▶noun

1 [in combination] a person or thing that gets a specified desirable thing: an attention-getter.

2 Electronics & Physics a substance used to remove residual gas from a vacuum tube, or impurities or defects from a semiconductor crystal.

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a go-getter vs a can-do attitude
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go-getter
The top vote-getter was a warning tag from a front-load washing machine.

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