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floater

English

  1. 🔊 an insurance policy covering loss of movable property (e.g. jewelry) regardless of its location
  2. 🔊 an object that floats or is capable of floating
  3. 🔊 a swimmer who floats in the water
  4. 🔊 a voter who votes illegally at different polling places in the same election
  5. 🔊 an employee who is reassigned from job to job as needed
  6. 🔊 a debt instrument with a variable interest rate tied to some other interest rate (e.g. the rate paid by T-bills)
  7. 🔊 a wanderer who has no established residence or visible means of support
  8. 🔊 spots before the eyes caused by opaque cell fragments in the vitreous humor and lens
    “floaters seem to drift through the field of vision”

Spanish

  1. 🔊 flotador floater

Similar words

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