"ager" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "age + -er",
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    {
      "form": "agers",
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        "plural"
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      "expansion": "ager (plural agers)",
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  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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      "glosses": [
        "One who or that which ages something."
      ],
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          "age",
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        {
          "ref": "1965, Richard Hays Williams, Claudine G. Wirths, Lives Through the Years: Styles of Life and Successful Aging, Transaction Publishers, page 165",
          "text": "When the aging person depends on another, the control of the aged one's life space is placed in the hands of another person who may or may not contribute action energy that is appropriate or acceptable from the standpoint of the ager.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2006, Gloria Davenport, Working with Toxic Older Adults: A Guide to Coping with Difficult Elders, Springer Publishing Company, page 143",
          "text": "Inappropriate behavior then erupts from the agers involved, disturbing everyone around, including the agers themselves, who often do not understand what is happening and struggle excessively to maintain rigid control of old perceptions and self images.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2014, Susan H. McFadden, Mark Brennan, New Directions in the Study of Late Life Religiousness and Spirituality, Routledge, page 62",
          "text": "This definition of success is located in society's structures and suits society, not the agers. Successful ageing is arguably therefore a socially constructed phenomenon, characterized by lack of “noise,” maintenance of youthful status until death, and a dogged engagement with social structures which appear almost as if designed to discourage the engagement of older people.",
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        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "One who is aging; an elderly person."
      ],
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      "links": [
        [
          "aging",
          "aging"
        ],
        [
          "elderly",
          "elderly"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(euphemistic) One who is aging; an elderly person."
      ],
      "synonyms": [
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          "sense": "elderly person",
          "word": "geriatric"
        }
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        "euphemistic"
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    {
      "ipa": "/ˈeɪ.dʒə/",
      "tags": [
        "UK"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈeɪ.d͡ʒɚ/",
      "tags": [
        "US"
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      "tags": [
        "Southern-England"
      ],
      "text": "Audio (Southern England)"
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "oldster"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "senior citizen"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "old person"
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  "word": "ager"
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    "English nouns",
    "English terms suffixed with -er (agent noun)",
    "English terms with IPA pronunciation",
    "English terms with audio links"
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    {
      "word": "superager"
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  ],
  "etymology_text": "age + -er",
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    {
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      ],
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          "age",
          "age"
        ]
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        {
          "ref": "1965, Richard Hays Williams, Claudine G. Wirths, Lives Through the Years: Styles of Life and Successful Aging, Transaction Publishers, page 165",
          "text": "When the aging person depends on another, the control of the aged one's life space is placed in the hands of another person who may or may not contribute action energy that is appropriate or acceptable from the standpoint of the ager.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2006, Gloria Davenport, Working with Toxic Older Adults: A Guide to Coping with Difficult Elders, Springer Publishing Company, page 143",
          "text": "Inappropriate behavior then erupts from the agers involved, disturbing everyone around, including the agers themselves, who often do not understand what is happening and struggle excessively to maintain rigid control of old perceptions and self images.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2014, Susan H. McFadden, Mark Brennan, New Directions in the Study of Late Life Religiousness and Spirituality, Routledge, page 62",
          "text": "This definition of success is located in society's structures and suits society, not the agers. Successful ageing is arguably therefore a socially constructed phenomenon, characterized by lack of “noise,” maintenance of youthful status until death, and a dogged engagement with social structures which appear almost as if designed to discourage the engagement of older people.",
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      ],
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        "One who is aging; an elderly person."
      ],
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        ],
        [
          "elderly",
          "elderly"
        ]
      ],
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        "(euphemistic) One who is aging; an elderly person."
      ],
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      ]
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  ],
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    {
      "ipa": "/ˈeɪ.dʒə/",
      "tags": [
        "UK"
      ]
    },
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  "synonyms": [
    {
      "sense": "elderly person",
      "word": "geriatric"
    },
    {
      "word": "oldster"
    },
    {
      "word": "senior citizen"
    },
    {
      "word": "old person"
    }
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  "word": "ager"
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