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/hˈændlər/ /hˈændələr/ Listen

noun

handler n.

One who trains or exhibits animals.

Synonyms: animal trainer.

Someone in charge of training an athlete (especially a boxer) or a team. Note: The term is used sometimes sarcastically of political consultants: "the president's handlers".

Synonyms: coach, manager.

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Etymology of 'Handler'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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... who will prove to be the wisest handler of the hundred thousand, and thus my eventual heir, I haven't the least idea. As I said before, they all need money, and need it badly—need it to be comfortable and happy, I mean. They aren't really poor, any of them, except, perhaps, Miss Flora. She is a little ...

— Oh, Money! Money! • Eleanor Hodgman Porter

... same spirit of co-operation; there must be intelligence in planning schedules for traffic and overcoming obstacles of nature and human frailty and incompetence. The teamster, the longshoreman, the freight-handler, and the engineer must all feel the push of the economic demand, keeping them steadily at work. A strike on any portion of the line ties up traffic and upsets the calculations of manufacturer, merchant, and consumer, for they are all ...

— Society - Its Origin and Development • Henry Kalloch Rowe