cruncher

[ kruhn-cher ]

noun

1. a person or thing that crunches.
2. Informal. a decisive blow, argument, event, or the like.

Word History and Origins

Origin of cruncher¹

First recorded in 1945–50; crunch + -er ¹

Example Sentences

Those figures “understate the impact of capital gains revenue on the budget,” a finance department numbers cruncher told me.

From Los Angeles Times

The office — the Legislature’s own highly respected number cruncher — issued a much more pessimistic forecast.

From Los Angeles Times

In Inglewood, Richardson established a reputation decades ago as a “number cruncher” who was hired by government agencies for consulting services and to help people facing eminent domain so they could be compensated for their property, political consultants familiar with her work told The Times.

From Los Angeles Times

For this week's show we asked Richard Hughes - the country's number cruncher in chief who runs the independent Office for Budget Responsibility - how he would answer that big question.

From BBC

Denigrated at the time as a numbers cruncher who could never replace his genius predecessor, Cook instead has pulled off the unusual feat of projecting a kind of woke coolness in the United States while artfully avoiding any criticism, ever, of authorities in China.

From Washington Post