"spooler" meaning in English

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          "text": "She again started to work for Respondent in November 1974 as a spooler and was thereafter laid off in January 1975. She commenced working again for Respondent in February 1975 as an oiler in the weave room on the first shift […]",
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          "text": "In a method for guiding a thread onto an empty reel after a first reel in a continuously operating spooler has become full, utilizing a moving finger on the spooler in cooperation with a gripper rotating with the empty reel […]",
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        "(computing) A program or process that spools (places data in a queue to be accessed later)."
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          "english": "print spooler",
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          "sense": "a computer program that queues data",
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          "word": "taustatulostin"
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