"linemaker" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "line + maker",
  "forms": [
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      "form": "linemakers",
      "tags": [
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  "pos": "noun",
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      "examples": [
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          "ref": "2008 May 2, Bill Finley, “As Handicapping Gets Less Common, It Also Gets Harder”, in New York Times",
          "text": "Mike Battaglia, who is the public handicapper for The Louisville Courier-Journal, the linemaker for Churchill Downs and an analyst on NBC’s Kentucky Derby telecasts, described his own recent record in the Derby this way: “Bad. Just bad.”",
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        "An employee of a gambling establishment who sets the line, or spread."
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          "set",
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          "line",
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          "spread",
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  "word": "linemaker"
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  ],
  "etymology_text": "line + maker",
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    {
      "form": "linemakers",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
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      ],
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