floater
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- noun
- /ˈfloʊtər/
- Jargon
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- Natasha will remain a floater at Stark with her cover intact.
- work as a floater
Examples
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I worked in the library as a floater, usually reshelving books, sometimes behind the front desk, sometimes in the offices upstairs.
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You're probably busy or not interested, but I need somebody to be a floater at the park.
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Adams was what we refer to as a floater.
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I work as an on-call floater for a nonprofit that runs a bunch of apartment houses for the formerly homeless.
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And there are tons of new grads who have no job, and those who do are all floaters.
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As a floater, I was assigned to various departments every week based on their needs.
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During the busy season, the company often hires floaters to fill in wherever they are needed.
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Being a floater means I can gain experience in different roles within the organization.
Synonyms
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A person who does a job for only a short time
How Flexible
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Floater comes from the verb float, which means 'to move or drift'. At work a floater is someone who 'drifts' between departments and helps wherever they are needed, which is why we call them a floater.