guest
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7.2
- noun
- /ɡɛst/
- Specialized
:
sistema invitado
- In the world of computer science, our first guest is familiarly known as TBL.
- guest VM
- guest operating system
- connect as a guest
Examples
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The Knowledge Quest editor works with a guest editor on developing the content of the magazine.
Academic text (2015) -
Right, We're now going to install a guest Windows operating system.
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In fact, the United States has been experimenting with guest worker programs for more than half a century.
Academic text (2004) -
The bills addressed three broad areas: a guest worker program, immigration, and border security.
Academic text (2008) -
I proved we can browse as a guest in Chromium OS.
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Leonard Schwartz is a poet and translator who guest-edited TLR's "New New York Writing" issue.
Fiction book (1998) -
"Employers," he wrote, "invest in lobbying to maintain the guest-worker program, not in labor-saving or back-saving alternatives."
Academic text (2000) -
But by 1973, Germany was employing 2.6 million guest workers, including about 600,000 Turks and 500,000 Yugoslavs.
Academic text (2001) -
You can use the guest account to access the network temporarily without full permissions.
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When you log in as a guest, you have limited access to the system's features.
Synonyms
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5.8
A computer or device on a network that sends and receives data
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Etymology
Guest in computing uses the same idea from the old English gæst meaning 'visitor' or 'stranger'. So a 'guest' computer is like a temporary visitor on a network, not a permanent part of the system.