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designer

[ dih-zahy-ner ]

noun

  1. a person who devises or executes designs, especially one who creates forms, structures, and patterns, as for works of art or machines.
  2. a schemer, intriguer, or plotter.


adjective

  1. designed or created by or carrying a label or identification of a designer, especially a fashion designer, but often mass-produced:

    designer jeans.

  2. created for intentional effect through chemical or genetic modification, as for a designer drug, or through crossbreeding, as for a designer dog.

designer

/ ɪˈɪə /

noun

  1. a person who devises and executes designs, as for works of art, clothes, machines, etc
  2. modifier designed by and bearing the label or signature of a well-known fashion designer

    designer jeans

  3. modifier (of things, ideas, etc) having an appearance of fashionable trendiness

    designer pop songs

    designer stubble

  4. modifier (of cells, chemicals, etc) designed (or produced) to perform a specific function or combat a specific problem

    designer insecticide

  5. modifier (of an animal) cross-bred for a specific purpose, such as looks, temperament, or likelihood of causing an allergy

    designer dogs

  6. a person who devises plots or schemes; intriguer
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Other Word Forms

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Word History and Origins

Origin of designer1

First recorded in 1640–50; design + -er 1
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Example Sentences

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Scenery, props and half the costumes were donated by the Anaheim-based, family-run stage company 3D Theatricals, and the designers waived their fees.

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There was so much he had to figure out with production designer Luke Hull that Tony Gilroy says Hull deserves as much credit as anyone in the writers room.

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We are illusion designers, people with a magic background who make theater.

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They were a plain set of black vinyl ears, but she and her son waited seven hours for a California Adventure designer to customize and dry them before they could be worn.

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A group of planners, designers, and field technicians at Southern California Edison on Thursday filed a petition for a union election with the National Labor Relations Board.

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