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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
optometrist
noun
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▪ An ophthalmic optician or optometrist tests for and prescribes glasses and can diagnose eye conditions, but doesn't treat eye diseases.
▪ Eleven optometrists working in 15 different locations were visited and interviewed with a structured questionnaire.
▪ He had five other optometrists working for hi in the shopping plaza location, and netted over sixty thousand dollars a year.
▪ He was hacking with three other optometrists.
▪ Ilium is a particularly good city for optometrists because the General Forge and Foundry Company is there.
▪ Leif Johnson was an optometrist when he began his own distribution business.
▪ Many optometrists are worried by this and feel there should be a routine in-depth eye test much earlier.
▪ The views of participating optometrists were also sought.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Optometrist

Optometrist \Op*tom"e*trist\, n. One who is skilled in or practices optometry, especially one who examines the eyes for defects in vision and prescribes the proper lenses to correct any defects discovered.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
optometrist

1903; see optometry + -ist.

Wiktionary
optometrist

n. a person trained and skilled in examining and testing the eyes for defects, in order to prescribe corrective lenses or treatment

WordNet
optometrist

n. a person skilled in testing for defects of vision in order to prescribe corrective glasses [syn: oculist]

Usage examples of "optometrist".

TV executives found it a nuisance and sometimes a dilemma when asked an almost identical question by a succession of people-friends, relatives, business contacts, politicos, doctors, dentists, optometrists, stockbrokers, guests at parties, a list ad infinitum.

Trout was talking to a Maggie White, who had given up being a dental assistant to become a homemaker for an optometrist.

Hambleton, retired (and how) optometrist from El Centro, and meet again the new style in neckwear.