OK'er

English

Etymology

From OK +‎ -er.

Noun

OK'er (plural OK'ers)

1. Alternative form of okayer (“one who OKs something”).
   • 1949 Summer, Fredson T. Bowers, “Bibliography and the University”, in The Library Chronicle of the Friends of the Library of the University of Pennsylvania, volume 15, number 2, page 45:

     No matter how technical and seemingly unrelated to any literary use some bibliographical investigation is, all of it is sometime applied. And even if a bibliographer were never anything else, he would justify his existence and his technical studies by serving as the OK’er of basic documents.

   • 1979, Frederick G. Nichols, Frederick G. Nichols’ Memoirs, 1878–1954: The Early View of Business Education, St. Peter, Minnesota: Delta Pi Epsilon, Inc., →ISBN, page 59:

     In Rochester “Sanky” Mullen was secretary of the school board and the OK’er of ordinary requisitions. He had a reputation for being a bit tough to get requisitions by.

   • 2015 March 1, Dante Ramos, “Don’t sweat, the commas”, in Boston Sunday Globe, volume 287, number 60, page K5:

     By reputation, no publication is more carefully assembled than The New Yorker, and none applies its own standards so fastidiously. In a fascinating recent essay entitled “Holy Writ,” longtime proofreader Mary Norris notes that at no other magazine is there a position called “page OK’er.”