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dater

dater

4.4
A small stamp that prints the date on documents
  • noun
  • /ˈdeɪtər/
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Examples

  • He's a computer dater.

    Sneakers (1992)

  • The office used a dater to mark the documents with the official date.

  • Every time she printed the tickets, the dater ensured they were stamped with the correct date.

  • He quickly grabbed the dater to print today's date on the forms before submitting them.

Synonyms

ticket stamping machine
vsdater
3.7

A machine that stamps a ticket with time and place

is used to stamp or print dates on various documents not for validation
ticket-stamping machine
vsdater
4.3

A machine that makes a mark on a ticket showing the time and place

is a general date stamping device that may require manual operation

How Automatic

dater
4.4
handstamp
1 4.1

Surface Forms

dater singular
daters plural

Morphology

dater = date (transparent) = date + er

Formed from the verb 'date' with the productive agent/instrument suffix '-er', so the device meaning is directly inferable.

Etymology

Dater comes from the word date ('a day or time') and the ending -er ('one who does something'). So a dater is literally something that 'puts the day' on a paper, which is why this device stamps the date on documents.