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taste tester

taste tester

1 2.8
A person who tries food or drink to check its flavour
  • noun
  • /teɪst ˈtɛstər/
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  • During the event, the taste testers shared their opinions on the different wines presented.

I would work as a taste tester at a Girl Scout company.

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Examples

  • I'm a really good taste tester, so it's like one of my specialties.

  • As a taste tester, she samples various dishes to evaluate their flavors.

  • I would work as a taste tester at a Girl Scout company.

    Rosanna Pansino

  • And may the best donut taste tester guesser win.

  • This one says official taste tester for the babies who brunch club official taste tester for the babies who brunch club.

  • And to find out where the willing mythicality is going to end, catch Travis McElroy as a guest taste tester over on the Sporked YouTube channel.

  • Based on evaluations by taste testers, Warner determined that the optimal range for adding C-Trim was between 5 percent and 10 percent—a significant savings of carbs.

    Academic text (2006)

  • The company hired a taste tester to provide feedback on their new ice cream flavors.

Synonyms

taster
vstaste tester
13 2.7

A person who tries small amounts of food or drink to judge its flavor

is paid to sample as a job rather than sampling casually
sampler
vstaste tester
1 4.8

A person who tastes food or drink to check quality

is a paid role focused on sampling as a job rather than occasional tasting
taste-tester
vstaste tester
3.7

A person who tries food or drink to judge how good it is

focuses on assessing quality and flavor rather than safety

How Expert

newspaper critic
  • Literature
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taste tester
1 2.8

Surface Forms

taste tester singular
taste testers plural

Morphology

taste + tester

The noun-noun compound is directly compositional: 'taste' (perceive flavors) + 'tester' (person who tests) yields a person who samples food or drink to judge flavor or quality. This standard English compounding pattern is cross-linguistically common, so a B1 learner who knows the constituents will readily infer the meaning.

Etymology

Taste tester comes from the simple image of a person whose job is to taste small samples of food or drink to judge them. So a taste tester is literally someone who checks the 'flavor' and 'quality' of food or drink.