circulator

[ sur-kyuh-ley-ter ]

noun

1. a person who moves from place to place.
2. a person who circulates money, information, etc.
3. a talebearer or scandalmonger.
4. any of various devices for circulating gases or liquids.
5. Obsolete. a mountebank.

Word History and Origins

Origin of circulator¹

1600–10; < Latin circulātor itinerant vendor who gathers a circle of people round himself ( circulate, -tor ); later as circulate + -or ²

Example Sentences

Online reaction to Metro’s draft environmental impact report echoes the agency’s dilemma: choosing speed and convenience, or creating a local circulator to densely populated neighborhoods.

From Los Angeles Times

"If the board finds that any circulator submitted a fraudulent petition sheet, it should invalidate all of that circulator’s sheets — for any candidate," Christopher Trebilcock, a lawyer for Democrats, wrote in the letter to state officials.

From Salon

The Democrats’ lawyers are led by Christopher Trebilcock claimed that state canvassers have previously upheld that fraud by a circulator on one sheet “calls into question” the validity of all the petitions submitted by that circulator, the Detroit News reported.

From Salon

Mr. Pool, a Texas-based petition circulator, has played a central role in Mr. Kennedy’s ballot-access efforts, according to court records and three people familiar with the campaign who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss its internal workings.

From New York Times

Scientists led by the University of Massachusetts Amherst have adapted a device called a microwave circulator for use in quantum computers, allowing them for the first time to precisely tune the exact degree of nonreciprocity between a qubit, the fundamental unit of quantum computing, and a microwave-resonant cavity.

From Science Daily