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-er

    1. a person having to do with, esp. as an occupation or profession: added to nouns: hatter, geographer
    2. a person native to or living in: added to place names and nouns: New Yorker, cottager
    3. a thing or action connected with: added to nouns, noun compounds, and noun phrases
    4. a person or thing that ____s: added to verbs: roller
  1. forming the comparative degree of many adjectives and adverbs: later, greater
  2. the action of ____ing: added to verb bases in legal language: demurrer, repleader
  3. repeatedly: added to verbs and verb bases: flicker, patter

See -er in American Heritage Dictionary 4

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