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float·er  (fltr)

n.

1. One that floats or is capable of floating.

2. One who wanders; a drifter.

3. An employee who is reassigned from job to job or shift to shift within an operation.

4. One who votes illegally in different polling places.

5. An insurance policy that protects movable property in transit or regularly subject to use in varying places.

6. Slang A corpse found floating in a body of water.

7. A speck or small thread in the visual field, usually perceived to be moving, that are caused by minute aggregations of cells or proteins in the vitreous humor of the eye.

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floater [ˈfləʊtə]

n

1. a person or thing that floats

2. (Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Physiology) any of a number of dark spots that appear in one's vision as a result of dead cells or fragments in the lens or vitreous humour of the eye

3. (Government, Politics & Diplomacy) US and Canadian

a.  a person of no fixed political opinion

b.  a person who votes illegally in more than one district at one election

c.  a voter who can be bribed

4. (Business / Insurance) Also called floating policy US and Canadian insurance a policy covering loss or theft of or damage to movable property, such as jewels or furs, regardless of its location

5. US informal a person who often changes employment, residence, etc.; drifter

6. (Earth Sciences / Minerals) Austral a loose gold- or opal-bearing rock

7. (Cookery) Austral (esp in Adelaide) a meat pie in a plate of pea soup

Thesaurus

Noun	1.	floater - spots before the eyes caused by opaque cell fragments in the vitreous humor and lens; "floaters seem to drift through the field of vision" musca volitans, muscae volitantes, spots symptom - (medicine) any sensation or change in bodily function that is experienced by a patient and is associated with a particular disease
	2.	floater - a debt instrument with a variable interest rate tied to some other interest rate (e.g. the rate paid by T-bills) certificate of indebtedness, debt instrument, obligation - a written promise to repay a debt
	3.	floater - a wanderer who has no established residence or visible means of support drifter, vagrant, vagabond beachcomber - a vagrant living on a beach have-not, poor person - a person with few or no possessions sundowner - a tramp who habitually arrives at sundown hobo, tramp, bum - a disreputable vagrant; "a homeless tramp"; "he tried to help the really down-and-out bums" bird of passage, roamer, rover, wanderer - someone who leads a wandering unsettled life
	4.	floater - an employee who is reassigned from job to job as needed employee - a worker who is hired to perform a job
	5.	floater - a voter who votes illegally at different polling places in the same election elector, voter - a citizen who has a legal right to vote
	6.	floater - a swimmer who floats in the water bather, natator, swimmer - a person who travels through the water by swimming; "he is not a good swimmer"
	7.	floater - an object that floats or is capable of floating object, physical object - a tangible and visible entity; an entity that can cast a shadow; "it was full of rackets, balls and other objects" berg, iceberg - a large mass of ice floating at sea; usually broken off of a polar glacier
	8.	floater - an insurance policy covering loss of movable property (e.g. jewelry) regardless of its location floating policy insurance policy, insurance, policy - written contract or certificate of insurance; "you should have read the small print on your policy"