Bearer

Definitions: Bearer

Bearer

Noun

1. Someone whose employment involves carrying something; "the bonds were transmitted by carrier".

2. A messenger who bears or presents; "a bearer of good tidings".

3. One of the mourners carrying the coffin at a funeral.

4. The person who is in possession of a check or note or bond or document of title that is endorsed to him or to whoever holds it; "the bond was marked `payable to bearer'".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "bearer" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1415. (references)

Building & Civil Engineering

Economics

Finance

Food & Agriculture

Mining

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonyms: Bearer

Carrier

Noun: carrier, porter, bearer, tranter, conveyer; cargador; express, expressman; stevedore, coolie; conductor, locomotive, motor.

Combatant

Infantry, infantryman, private, private soldier, foot soldier; Tommy Atkins, rank and file, peon, trooper, sepoy, legionnaire, legionary, cannon fodder, food for powder; officer; (commander); subaltern, ensign, standard bearer; spearman, pikeman; spear bearer; halberdier, lancer; musketeer, carabineer, rifleman, jager, sharpshooter, yager, skirmisher; grenadier, fusileer; archer, bowman.

Director

Officer, functionary, minister, official, red-tapist, bureaucrat; man in office, Jack in office; office bearer; person in authority.

Jurisdiction

Officer, bailiff, tipstaff, bum-bailiff, catchpoll, beadle; policeman, cop, police constable, police sergeant; sbirro, alguazil, gendarme, kavass, lictor, mace bearer, huissier, bedel; tithingman.

Messenger

Marshal, flag bearer, herald, crier, trumpeter, bellman, pursuivant, parlementaire, apparitor.

Securities

Noun: securities, stocks, common stock, preferred stock, bonds, puts, calls, options, option contract, warrants, commercial paper, bearer bond, tax-exempt bond, callable bond, convertable bond.

Servant

Maid, maidservant; handmaid; confidente, lady's maid, abigail, soubrette; amah, biddy, nurse, bonne, ayah; nursemaid, nursery maid, house maid, parlor maid, waiting maid, chamber maid, kitchen maid, scullery maid; femme de chambre, femme fille; camarista; chef de cuisine,cordon bleu, cook, scullion, Cinderella; potwalloper; maid of all work, servant of all work; laundress, bedmaker; journeyman, charwoman; (worker); bearer, chokra, gyp, hamal, scout.

Attendant, squire, usher, page, donzel, footboy; train bearer, cup bearer; waiter, lapster, butler, livery servant, lackey, footman, flunky, flunkey, valet, valet de chambre; equerry, groom; jockey, hostler, ostler, tiger, orderly, messenger, cad, gillie, herdsman, swineherd; barkeeper, bartender; bell boy, boots, boy, counterjumper; khansamah, khansaman; khitmutgar; yardman.

Treasurer

Noun: treasurer; bursar, bursary; purser, purse bearer; cash keeper, banker; depositary; questor, receiver, steward, trustee, accountant, Accountant General, almoner, liquidator, paymaster, cashier, teller; cambist; money changer; (merchant).

Crosswords: Bearer

The magic chose the shape, not I. I am a bearer, I am a dwelling, I am a messenger. (The Last Unicorn; writing credit: Peter S. Beagle)

I hate to bearer of bad news. (Charmed; writing credit: Colman deKay)

You are the bearer of unconditional things ("Head Over Feet"; performing artist: Alanis Morissette)

The Cross Bearer (1918)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Books

• 10 Cool Things about Being a Ring Bearer (reference)

• Bearer of the Pipe (reference)

• Jesus the Rebel: Bearer of God's Peace and Justice (reference)

• The Bearer of Gifts (reference)

• The Light Bearer (reference)

  (more book examples)

Periodicals

• Standard Bearer (reference)

  (more periodical examples)

Theater & Movies

• "Wedding Kids": A how-to video for your flower girl, or ring bearer, Invaluable! (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• Bearer of Music (reference)

• The Standard Bearer (reference)

• Water Bearer [IMPORT] (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Cuban standard bearer.Credit: Library of Congress.

Equestrian standard bearer.Credit: Library of Congress.

Taking a despatch bearer near Chancellorsville.Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

To be issued forthwith, further 40,000,000,000 Marks gold bearer bonds, bearing interest at 2-1/2 per cent. per annum between 1921 and l926, and thereafter at 5 per cent. per annum with an additional l per cent. for amortisation beginning in 1926 on the whole amount of the issue. (reference)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Probably the bearer and the gravedigger had tipped the coffin and let the head down before the feet.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Health

The card should alert emergency personnel about the need to inject 100 mg of cortisol if its bearer is found severely injured or unable to answer questions. (references)

Civil Liberties

Latvia

Citizens' passports indicate the ethnicity of the bearer. (references)

Iraq

The ration cards, part of the U.N. oil-for-food program, reportedly are checked when the bearer enters a mosque and are printed with a notice of severe penalties for those who attempt to pray at an unauthorized location. (references)

Economic History

Costa Rica

Bonds may be issued in bearer form. (references)

Political Economy

Cote D'ivoire

Alassane Ouattara, founder and standard bearer of the RDR, has been unsuccessful in several attempts to run for elected office. (references)

Trade

Israel

However, in the case of products for which there is a TRQ, the Ministry of Agriculture or the Ministry of Industry and Trade issues a license exempting the bearer from duty on the quantity indicated in the license. (references)

Spain

Prior notification: This regulation requires prior notification for the export of coins, bank notes and bearer checks, in either local or foreign currency, for amounts over one million pesetas per person, per trip. (references)

Travel

China

A few different types of visas are issued to visitors, including the tourist visa (Type L) that allows the bearer one- to two entries to stay up to one month each time. (references)

Worker Rights

Dominican Republic

These tickets, issued to a specific person but payable to the bearer, may be turned in to the employer and redeemed for cash every 2 weeks. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Expressions using "bearer": a good bearer ♦ admit bearer ♦ Aquarius the Water Bearer ♦ armour bearer ♦ be a pall bearer ♦ bearer bond ♦ bearer channel ♦ bearer check ♦ bearer cheque ♦ bearer of good tidings ♦ bearer of ominous tidings ♦ bearer paper ♦ bearer scrip ♦ bearer share ♦ Bell bearer ♦ Bow bearer ♦ check bearer ♦ coffin bearer ♦ color bearer ♦ Ensign bearer ♦ flag bearer ♦ Frost bearer ♦ identifiable bearer security ♦ lathe bearer ♦ mace bearer ♦ office bearer ♦ pall bearer ♦ passport bearer ♦ payable to bearer ♦ payable to the bearer ♦ purse bearer ♦ radio bearer ♦ sack bearer ♦ seed bearer ♦ shield bearer ♦ spear bearer ♦ spire bearer ♦ staff bearer ♦ standard bearer ♦ stretcher bearer ♦ sword bearer ♦ tale bearer ♦ torch bearer ♦ Water Bearer ♦ zero coupon Eurosterling bearer registered accruing security. Additional references.

Ending with "bearer": god-bearer, office-bearer, pall-bearer.

Albanian

bimë prodhuese (cropper), bartës (host), prurës, mbajtës (deterrent, handler, holder, keeper, retentive, supporting, suspensory, wearer), mbështetëse (backrest, bracket, buttress, console, crutch, prop, rack, reinforcement, rest, saddle, shore, stanchion, stand, support, supporter). (various references)

Arabic 

‏حامل الرسالة, ‏حامل (big with child, carriage, expectant, gravid, incumbent, pregnant, support, trestle), ‏عتال (carrier, porter), ‏شجرة تحمل ثمرة. (various references)

Bulgarian 

опора (abut, anchor, anchorage, backlog, bulwark, buttress, column, cradle, crutch, dependence, faith, foothold, holder, jamb, lodgement, lodgment, mainstay, palladium, pillar, prop, purchase, rampart, rest, rock, roothold, sinews, staff, stand by, stay, stock, stronghold, support, tower, underpinning), носач (heaver, porter, redcap), носител (carrier, circulator, holder, vehicle), предявител (payee). (various references)

Chinese 

� �""者 , 持票人. (various references)

Czech

posel (courier, envoy, harbinger, Herald, messenger, runner), nositel (holder, vehicle, wearer), nosiè (bracket, carrier, porter, rack), držitel (holder, incumbent, occupant, occupier), doruèitel. (various references)

Danish

bjaelke (balk, baulk, float, float lever, floater, longeron, spar), bjælke (balk, baulk, beam, flagpole, girder, girder beam, joist, solid web), rem (inferior purlin, rem, strap, wall plate), indehaver af værdipapirer (holder of securities), hændehaver (holder of securities). (various references)

Dutch

zolderbalk, toonder (holder of securities), houder van effecten (holder of securities), dwarslatten voor het stapelen van gezaagd hout (bolster), dwarsdrager (bodywork crossbar, bodywork member, cross bar, cross beam, cross girder, cross member, cross truss, cross-bearer, strut, transom), drager (bracket, carrier, charge carrier, holder, holding device, mounting, mounting bracket, porter, prop, support, tray), draagbalk (capsill, dancer, girder, springer, transom, transome, truss, twister). (various references)

Esperanto

sennoma akcio (bearer share, share to bearer). (various references)

Farsi 

حامل (Carrier, Conveyer, Conveyor, Porter, Stave, Vehicle), دروجه حامل , درخت بارور. (various references)

Finnish

välirima (bolster), telapuu (bolster, crosser, dunnage, fillet, piling stick, piling strip, pin, stacking strip, sticker, strip), palkki (baulk, beam, flagpole, joist), kannatinpalkki (girder, trimmer). (various references)

French

porteur. (various references)

German

träger (beam, braces, cantilever, carrier, carrier substance, carrier wave, carriers, charged particle, connector, crossbeam, girder, holder, institution, joist, launch vehicle, launcher, litter, porter, porters, promoter, representative, shoulder strap, sliding splined shaft, sluggishly, sponsor, strap, strecher, substrate, support, supporter, supporters, upholder, vector, vehicle, wearer, winner), Inhaber (assignee, bondholder, franchisee, grantee, holder, holder of securities, licensee, manager, occupant, occupier, owner, possessor, possessors, proprietor), überbringer (bringer, messenger, presenter). (various references)

Greek 

κομιστής (holder of securities, porter). (various references)

Hebrew 

מביא (afferent), סבל (carrier, lumper, porter, redcap). (various references)

Hungarian

vivõ (bearing, carrier), tulajdonos (keeper, owner, possessor, proprietary, proprietor), koporsóvivõ. (various references)

Indonesian

pembawa surat. (various references)

Italian

portatore (carrier, charge carrier, holder of securities). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

遣い (errand, familiar spirit, going as envoy, message, messenger, mission, tamer, trainer, usage, use), 持参人 , 使い (errand, familiar spirit, going as envoy, message, messenger, mission, tamer, trainer, usage, use). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

つかい (errand, familiar spirit, going as envoy, message, messenger, mission, tamer, trainer, usage, use), じさ�"に�". (various references)

Korean 

지게꾼. (various references)

Manx

ymmyrkagh (carrier, carrier person, conveyor, haulage contractor; sustaining, haulier, portable, porter, transporter, vehicle), sharvaant (orderly, servant, valet, vassal), erreyder (carrier, porter). (various references)

Pig Latin

earerbay

Portuguese

portador (aeroplane carrier, carrier, charge carrier, conductor, contact, conveyer, holder of securities). (various references)

Romanian

titular (holder, keeper, titular), purtãtor (carrier, carrying), pom fructifer (fruiter), aducãtor (bearing, bringer, bringing). (various references)

Russian 

предъявитель (holder), податель (presenter), подпорка (bracket, buttress, chock, counterfort, leg, puncheon, shore, stay, support, upright). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

nosilac (carrier, wearer), imalac (holder, possessor), donosilac (payee). (various references)

Spanish

portador (carrier, charge carrier, conveyor, holder of securities, payee). (various references)

Swedish

innehavare (holder, keeper, lessee, occupant, occupier, owner, tenant, tenant farmer, titular). (various references)

Turkish

tabut taşıyıcı, taşıyan (bearing), taşıyıcı (carrier, contact, conveyer, conveyor, germ carrier, haulier, mover, transporter, vector, vehicle), hamil (holder), getiren (afferent), götüren. (various references)

Ukranian 

санітар (aidman, orderly), цілик (arch, barrier), опора (anchorage, anchorage-ground, backing, buttress, cradle, crutch, footing, holdfast, pillar, reliance, stay, steady, stilt, stock, support, tower), носій, продавець (clerk, marketeer, monger, salesclerk, shopman, vendor), переносник вантажів. (various references)

Vietnamese 

người vác, người mang (carrier, wearer), người khiêng, người đem (conveyer), cái trụ (bearing, upholder), cái giá (jack-horse). (various references)

Welsh

dygiedydd, arweddwr. (various references)

gerulae. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "bearer": bearers. (additional references)

Words ending with "bearer": casebearer, crossbearer, cupbearer, forbearer, furbearer, pallbearer, talebearer, torchbearer, trainbearer, upbearer. (additional references)

Words containing "bearer": casebearers, crossbearers, cupbearers, forbearers, furbearers, pallbearers, talebearers, torchbearers, trainbearers, upbearers. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Bearer" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Baaader, baarrrp, Baere, baerel, Baeren, Beader, Beafra, beager, beaner, beara, Bearder, beare, beared, beari, bearic, bearner, bearse, Beartrix, bearu, bearur, Beaser, beezer, beire, benare, Berer, beruhrt, Beurer, biare, biarre, boarer, brarer, earer, gearer, yearer. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: barer, barre, rebar.

-2 letters: bare, bear, beer, brae, bree, rare, rear.

-3 letters: arb, are, bar, bee, bra, brr, ear, era, ere, err, reb, ree.

-4 letters: ab, ae, ar, ba, be, er, re.

+1 letter: acerber, bearers, breaker, cerebra, gerbera, rebater.

+2 letters: banterer, barbered, barreled, barrener, barrette, bartered, barterer, bereaver, berretta, betrayer, bewrayer, blearier, breacher, breakers, breather, cerebral, debarred, embarred, embracer, forebear, gerberas, jabberer, overbear, rebaters, reembark, rehabber, teaberry, upbearer, vertebra.

+3 letters: aberrance, aberrated, aerobrake, baneberry, banterers, barbecuer, barkeeper, barometer, barrelage, barrelled, barrenest, barrettes, bartender, barterers, bearberry, bereavers, berrettas, betrayers, bewrayers, blaeberry, blatherer, bordereau, brasserie, brassiere, braveries, breachers, breathers, breathier, brokerage, cerebrals, cerebrate, clamberer, cupbearer, embraceor, embracers, embracery, embrasure, firebreak, forbearer, forebears, freebaser, freeboard, furbearer, garderobe, jabberers, orderable, overbears, perborate, preverbal, reboarded, redbreast, reembarks, referable, rehabbers, reparable, reprobate, seborrhea, upbearers, vertebrae, vertebral, vertebras.

+4 letters: aberrances, abhorrence, aerobraked, aerobrakes, barbecuers, barberries, barkeepers, barometers, barrelages, barrelhead, barrenness, barretries, bartenders, bayberries, bizarrerie, blatherers, bordereaux, brasseries, brassieres, breakwater, breviaries, brokerages, carabineer, carbureted, casebearer, celebrator, cerebellar, cerebrally, cerebrated, cerebrates, clamberers, cupbearers, deferrable, deterrable, drumbeater, embraceors, embrasures, fireballer, firebreaks, forbearers, freebasers, freeboards, furbearers, garderobes, hagberries, heartbreak, icebreaker, irremeable, jawbreaker, keyboarder, lawbreaker, pallbearer, perborates, perdurable, prebendary, preembargo, preferable, preferably, prepuberal, reabsorbed, rebranched, rebranches, recordable, redbreasts, reembarked, reformable, rekeyboard, remarkable, renderable, repairable, reportable, reprobance, reprobated, reprobates, reservable, respirable, restorable, returnable, rewardable, rhabdomere, seborrheas, sweetbriar, talebearer, teaberries, threadbare, tiebreaker, unbarbered, verbalizer, vertebrate, waterborne, waxberries, weaverbird.

+5 letters: aberrancies, abhorrences, afterburner, ambergrises, arborescent, backbreaker, baneberries, barometries, barrelheads, barrelhouse, bearberries, beaverboard, benchwarmer, bizarreness, bizarreries, blaeberries, boilermaker, brainteaser, breadwinner, breakfaster, breakwaters, candleberry, carabineers, carabiniere, carburetted, carburetter, casebearers, celebrators, celebratory, centerboard, cerebrating, cerebration, conferrable, correctable, cranberries, crossbearer, decarburize, decerebrate, deferrables, descrambler, drumbeaters, embarcadero, embarrassed, embarrasses, embraceries, erythorbate, farkleberry, fireballers, forbearance, gingerbread, greenbacker, haberdasher, hackberries, halterbreak, halterbroke, harbingered, harebrained, heartbreaks, heartbroken, hyperborean, icebreakers, inenarrable, irrecusable, irrefutable, irremovable, irreparable, irrevocable, jawbreakers, keyboarders, lawbreakers, leaderboard, liberalizer, overbearing, overlabored, pallbearers, performable, perturbable, prepubertal, preservable, raspberries, reattribute, rebarbative, recalibrate, recoverable, reembarking, refrangible, regenerable, registrable, regrettable, regrettably, rekeyboards, relubricate, remembrance, reprobances, reprobative, restartable, retractable, retrainable, retrievable, returnables, reverberant, reverberate, rhabdomeres, sauerbraten, shadberries, soapberries, sweetbriars, talebearers, teeterboard, tiebreakers, torchbearer, trailerable, trainbearer, traversable, treasurable, verbalizers, vertebrates, weaverbirds, wheelbarrow, windbreaker.

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