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rodent operative

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rodent operative
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(Business / Professions) Brit a name sometimes used for an official (operative) employed by a local authority to destroy vermin
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The Americans have carried the tradition of turf accountant (for bookie) and rodent operative (for ratcatcher) into the IT world, with computer bug-hunters rebranded as digital scatologists.
Putting it another way: blogs add to wealth of euphemisms by guardian.co.uk / guardian.co.uk
You can't feel that warmth once reserved for the local rat-catcher now that he's a city council employee described as a rodent operative, can you?
They wuz poor but they wuz 'onest.. by Birmingham Mail (England)
 
 
 
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