-izer

English dictionary entry

Meanings

suffix
  1. used to form nouns which are formed from verbs from nouns or adjectives, the final nouns having the sense of "the agent which makes what is denoted by the noun/adjective".

Word forms

-izer -iser

Etymology

From -ize + -er.

Related words

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