repositioner

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

reposition +‎ -er

Noun[edit]

repositioner (plural repositioners)

  1. One who, or that which, repositions.
    • 1978, Brian Inglis, The Book of the Back, page 109:
      Nevertheless osteopaths are coming to regard themselves not so much as thrusters, or even as repositioners, of bones, but as releasers of the patient's own recuperative forces.