coordinator

One who, or that which, coordinates.

Noun

  1. One who, or that which, coordinates.
    1. (sports, chiefly American football) An assistant coach responsible for a particular facet of the game, such as defense.

    2. (grammar) A member of a lexical class of words that joins two or more items (such as words, phrases, or clauses) of equal syntactic importance.

      • Near-synonym: coordinating conjunction

      Synonyms: coordinating conjunction

      Coordinate Terms: subordinator

Origin

Etymology tree English coordinate English -or English coordinator From coordinate + -or.

Forms

coordinators coördinator co-ordinator

Related

coordinately coordination

Derived

intimacy coordinator