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plural loaders
Agent noun of load; a person or device that loads. quotations examples
A loader performs the important work of storing goods in the wagons and of unloading the wagons. In each case considerable skill is required to avoid breakage, and, in the case of loading, skill goes far to conserve wagon space.
1944 March and April, T. F. Cameron, “The Working of Marshalling Yards and Goods Sheds”, in Railway Magazine, page 85
The loader […] placed the cartridge in the muzzle and shoved it in as far as he could. The rammer rammed it home, the gun captain inserting his priming wire to make sure.
2014, Benerson Little, The Sea Rover's Practice
(computing) A program that prepares other programs for execution. examples
A tractor with a scoop, for example: front-end loader, front loader, endloader, payloader, bucket loader, wheel loader, etc. examples
(marketing) An incentive given to a dealer. quotations examples
Unique point-of-purchase materials and display loaders dramatically contribute to the display's attention-getting ability.
1990, Robert B. Konikow, Sales Promotion Design, page 197
Marketers use dealer loaders to obtain new distributors and push larger quantities of goods.
1995, William M. Pride, O. C. Ferrell, Marketing: Concepts and Strategies, page 591
Dealer (or buying) loaders are gifts offered to resellers for stocking products. Many companies specialize in providing premium and gift items, and publish catalogues from which you can select appropriate items.
2001, Stuart Clark Rogers, Marketing Strategies, Tactics, and Techniques, page 172
Helping; helpful; assisting. examples
(medicine) Designating a supplementary form of treatment, especially a cancer therapy administered after removal of a primary tumour. quotations examples
Adjuvant chemotherapy, Carbone conjectured, could be the surgeon's little helper.
2010, Siddhartha Mukherjee, The Emperor of all Maladies, Fourth Estate, published 2011, page 219
plural adjuvants
Someone who helps or facilitates; an assistant, a helper. examples
(medicine) Something that enhances the effectiveness of a medical treatment; a supplementary treatment. examples
(pharmacology) An additive (as in a drug) that aids or modifies the action of the principal ingredient.
(agriculture) An additive (often a separate product) that enhances the efficacy of pesticide products, but has little or no pesticidal activity itself. examples
(immunology) A substance enhancing the immune response to an antigen. quotations
The well-known tropic action of immune serum as an adjuvant to phagocytosis suggested early in our studies that we might here be dealing with a similar phenomenon.
Gay, Frederick P.; Claypole, Edit J. (1914), “Specific Hyperleukocytosis: Studies In Typhoid Immunization”, in Archives of Internal Medicine, volume XIV, issue 5, retrieved 16 April 2020, pages 662–670