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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
forecaster
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
economic
▪ Perhaps economic forecasters and consultants should consider the beam in their own eye before criticising the Government's figures.
▪ The risk of recession this year rose to 33 percent in the February survey of 34 economic forecasters.
▪ The upturn in sales was double the increase the economic forecasters had been expecting, but the City remained sceptical.
■ NOUN
weather
▪ However, weather forecasters say the cyclone should move offshore, promising dry conditions on Sunday.
▪ The weather forecaster does as he should: he attempts to give the approximate atmospheric conditions for the next few days.
▪ The local weather forecaster had told me we'd get rain and we did.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Another forecaster picks it second, and one other puts it in a tie for runner-up.
▪ Computers at the centres hold information of vital importance to any private forecaster.
▪ However, some other forecasters are more sanguine about inflation.
▪ However, weather forecasters say the cyclone should move offshore, promising dry conditions on Sunday.
▪ Not until June did forecasters appreciate how severe El Nino might be.
▪ Perhaps economic forecasters and consultants should consider the beam in their own eye before criticising the Government's figures.
▪ The weather forecaster does as he should: he attempts to give the approximate atmospheric conditions for the next few days.
▪ They would then be in the position of the top market forecasters who know their advice will be self-fulfilling.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Forecaster

Forecaster \Fore*cast"er\, n. One who forecast.
--Johnson.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
forecaster

1630s, agent noun from forecast (v.).

Wiktionary
forecaster

n. A person who forecasts.

WordNet
forecaster

n. someone who makes predictions of the future (usually on the basis of special knowledge) [syn: predictor, prognosticator, soothsayer]

Usage examples of "forecaster".

I could have predicted the severity of rain or snow we would get more accurately than any weather forecasters by the intensity of the pain in my knee joints.

Weather Centre of the British Broadcasting Corporation, taking it in turns with several other forecasters to deliver the good or bad weather news to the nation.

I and all other Met Office forecasters working the same shift were connected together in a telephone conference to learn what was happening in the weather world, and what interpretation we should put on sometimes wildly divergent facts.

BBC would have lost two forecasters permanently, and on a cloudless fine evening, no less.

It may also be that low birthweight is a strong forecaster of poor parenting, since a mother who smokes or drinks or otherwise mistreats her baby in utero isn’t likely to turn things around just because the baby is born.

It may also be that low birthweight is a strong forecaster of poor parenting, since a mother who smokes or drinks or otherwise mistreats her baby in utero isn't likely to turn things around just because the baby is born.

It was impossible to judge their record on these ancient bursts, predating even flesher gamma-ray astronomy, but if it turned out that they'd correctly anticipated the time of Lac G-1's collision, they'd have shown themselves to be extraordinarily trustworthy forecasters.

So the massage parlor drawing ended up in the office of a weather forecaster.

Other criminologists, political scientists, and similarly learned forecasters laid out the same horrible future, as did President Clinton.

There each afternoon at two o'clock I and all other Meteorological Office forecasters working the same shift were connected together in a telephone conference to learn what was happening in the weather world, and what interpretation we should put on sometimes wildly divergent facts.

There each afternoon at two o'clock I and all other Met Office forecasters working the same shift were connected together in a telephone conference to learn what was happening in the weather world, and what interpretation we should put on sometimes wildly divergent facts.

He said you'd have known about uranium and plutonium too because you were a physicist as well as a weather forecaster.

Maybe I can be a reporter on TV and you can be the weather forecaster and we'll call our show Ellis and Tubman Report.

Even a god-damned weather forecaster has a data base to help him out.

The republic's chief weather forecaster resigned his well-paid hereditary post, so distasteful had his work of predicting disaster become to him.