"unseater" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: unseaters [plural]
Etymology: From unseat + -er. Etymology templates: {{suf|en|unseat|-er}} unseat + -er Head templates: {{en-noun}} unseater (plural unseaters)
  1. Someone who unseats (in various senses).
    Sense id: en-unseater-en-noun-HCbhtvLM Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English terms suffixed with -er

Inflected forms

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          "ref": "1979, Ronald Eyre, Ronald Eyre on the Long Search: Ronald Eyre's Own Account of a Three-Year Journey, Glasgow: Collins, page 219",
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          "ref": "1994, Greg Matthews, The Wisdom of Stones, New York, N.Y.: HarperCollins Publishers, page 331",
          "text": "He was a natural-born unseater of kings, and a throne to him, as a Territorian, was useful only as kindling.",
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          "ref": "2009, The Form Book Flat Annual for 2009, Compton, Berkshire: Raceform Ltd., page 506",
          "text": "Ordinary form but a most eventful race in which the picture changed dramatically near the finish. The unseaters are rated as having finished first and second with the first three close to previous form, but the fourth home may be the best long-term proposition.",
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          "ref": "2018 July 14, Max Bearak, “Mugabe is gone. But his tactics persist in Zimbabwe's first election without him.”, in The Washington Post, Washington, D.C.: The Washington Post Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2022-12-06",
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