fitter

[ fit-er ]

noun

1. a person or thing that fits. fit.
2. a person who fits fit garments.
3. a worker who fits fit together or adjusts the parts of machinery.
4. a person who supplies and fixes fittings or fixtures.
5. a person who furnishes or equips with whatever is necessary for some purpose.

fitter

/ ˈfɪtə /

noun

1. a person who fits a garment, esp when it is made for a particular person
2. a person who is skilled in the assembly and adjustment of machinery, esp of a specified sort

   an electrical fitter

3. a person who supplies something for an expedition, activity, etc

Word History and Origins

Origin of fitter¹

First recorded in 1650–60; fit ¹ + -er ¹

Example Sentences

Bike fitters rely on standardized methodologies to dial in a customer’s most ergonomic riding position.

From Outside Online

McCormack is one of the foremost instructors in the sport, a Boulder, Colorado–based skills-book author, bike fitter, and coach with more than two decades of experience.

From Outside Online

The fitter you are, the longer you’re expected to live, and there’s no evidence whatsoever that the pattern reverses once you get really, really fit.

From Outside Online

Those measures include using ear savers, pantyhose or mask fitters, or putting a cloth mask over a medical mask.

From Science News

Normally, the fitter you are, the lower your heart rate will be—generally a good thing as it indicates that your heart muscle doesn’t need to work as hard to maintain a steady beat.

From Popular-Science

I then convinced a friend fitter than I am to give it a go on his own system.

From The Daily Beast

My dad was a sprinkler fitter and he was in the union, so we moved around every three years for his job.

From The Daily Beast

The party's leader, Naftali Bennett, is an American-born centi-millionaire who resembles a younger, fitter Sheldon Adelson.

From The Daily Beast

Kidon operatives are even more innovative, braver, and physically fitter than other Mossad men and women.

From The Daily Beast

The encounters ended when his father, a pipe-fitter, moved the family to Mississippi.

From The Daily Beast

The Princess was pale and thin; and, though dressed superbly, seemed fitter for her chamber.

From Project Gutenberg

He has seen nothing but Corsican service; well, he is the fitter to command an army of banditti.

From Project Gutenberg

Madame Malmaison had always been a little proud of the beauty and grace and sweetness of her fitter-on.

From Project Gutenberg

In such, or fitter words, does Camille evoke the Elemental Powers, in this great moment.

From Project Gutenberg

There was no fitter way in which he could have expressed his contempt.

From Project Gutenberg

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