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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
seeker
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
asylum seeker
▪ The government halted its policy of returning Zimbabwean asylum seekers to their homeland.
job seeker
pleasure seeker
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
bogus
▪ Mr. Winnick Is the Home Secretary aware that the argument is not about bogus asylum seekers?
genuine
▪ Those claimants undermine the claims of genuine asylum seekers, and no one would wish to defend them.
▪ While so many documentary-makers seem chiefly eager to exhibit their punditry, he appeared as a genuine seeker after knowledge.
▪ We will introduce improved welfare and legal rights for genuine asylum seekers and establish substantive rights of appeal.
▪ I do not believe that the genuine asylum seeker will be treated fairly.
■ NOUN
asylum
▪ They should have done more for asylum seekers.
▪ The difficulties are most acute for those associations specialising in short-term accommodation and for those finding housing for refugees and asylum seekers.
▪ Those claimants undermine the claims of genuine asylum seekers, and no one would wish to defend them.
▪ We will introduce improved welfare and legal rights for genuine asylum seekers and establish substantive rights of appeal.
▪ Up to last November 70,215 asylum seekers had entered Britain.
▪ That is a key part in the identification process of an asylum seeker applying for income support.
▪ Research suggested that 2,000 children of asylum seekers were without school places.
job
▪ What advice would the Secretary of State offer that young lady, apart from consulting the job seekers charter?
▪ What Mr Saez, and hundreds of other job seekers discovered, was that the supply of economics jobs is shrinking.
▪ Assistance with child care costs was also important for 79 percent of job seekers with children in day care.
▪ A job seeker used that tactic when he made a call to Miller recently.
▪ Miller was on the phone right away and offered to meet with the job seeker personally later in the week.
▪ That makes her wonder if the job seeker pays attention to detail.
▪ Take the real-life example of a job seeker whose ex-boss blackballed him.
▪ The growing reach of the Internet is requiring job seekers to learn yet another set of computer skills.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ As the 1960s ended and the wave of neo-oriental spirituality began to decline, the seekers began to look elsewhere.
▪ Fatigue and the rigors of the climate decimated most of the seekers.
▪ His crackdown on asylum seekers and his humiliating voucher system are reprehensible.
▪ Other career seekers are more interested in venturing into uncharted waters.
▪ The new system will not affect asylum seekers who are already living in the capital and the southeast.
▪ We will introduce improved welfare and legal rights for genuine asylum seekers and establish substantive rights of appeal.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Seeker

Seeker \Seek"er\, n.

  1. One who seeks; that which is used in seeking or searching.

  2. (Eccl.) One of a small heterogeneous sect of the 17th century, in Great Britain, who professed to be seeking the true church, ministry, and sacraments.

    A skeptic [is] ever seeking and never finds, like our new upstart sect of Seekers.
    --Bullokar.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
seeker

early 14c., agent noun from seek. The religious sect of the Seekers is attested from 1645.

Wiktionary
seeker

n. 1 One who seeks. 2 Especially, a religious seeker: a pilgrim, or one who aspires to enlightenment, Nirvana, salvation, or God Realization

WordNet
seeker
  1. n. someone making a search or inquiry; "they are seekers after truth" [syn: searcher, quester]

  2. a missile equipped with a device that is attracted toward some kind of emission (heat or light or sound or radio waves)

Wikipedia
Seeker

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Seeker may refer to:

Seeker (comics)

Seeker is a fictional character in Marvel Comics.

Seeker (Noble Warriors Trilogy)

Seeker (2005) is the first book in the Noble Warriors trilogy, written by William Nicholson.

Seeker (novel)

Seeker is a 2005 science fiction novel by Jack McDevitt. It won the Nebula Award for Best Novel in 2006.

Seeker (Anabaptism)

A Seeker is a person likely to join a traditional Anabaptist community, like the Amish, the Old Order Mennonites, the Hutterites or the Old Order River Brethren. Among the 500,000 member of such communities in the United States there are only an estimated 1,200 to 1,300 outsiders who have joined them.

A major obstacle for seekers is the language, because Old Order communities speak German dialects like Pennsylvania German or Hutterite German in every day life and in general won't give it up for seekers.

Usage examples of "seeker".

By that time the warhead received its signal to detonate and the fuse flashed into incandescence, lighting off an intermediate explosive set in the center of the main explosive, which erupted into a white-hot segment that detonated the high-explosive cylinder of the unit in the nose cone aft of the seeker and navigation modules forward of the central processor.

After a few moments the seeker saw the shape forming up ahead, the boxy bridge, the pointed bow, the tall central mast and the funnel aft, with the box of the hangar for the Dauphin helicopter and the flat helo-deck aft.

These ancient alchemists hid the next clue in such a manner that the seeker not only had to solve the riddle, but also had to have a basic understanding of the amalgam and its properties.

The disciple was a bundle of contradictions, for though he was willful, headstrong, belligerent when challenged, he was also a seeker, as the Baptist had described him.

Every time Harry thought he saw someone coming after one of the other Seekers, he hit a Bludger at the player in question.

However paranoid Calandra might feel about the Halo of God, my own respect for both the Seekers and their goals was only increasing.

Padishar was how Rimmer Dall had warned him that, like the First Seeker, Par, too, was a Shadowen.

Par feared that his affinity with the First Seeker, whatever its nature, let Rimmer Dall glean the secrets he would otherwise keep hiddeneven those he was not immediately privy to, those kept by his friends and companions.

Or they can deny immigration to seekers of the Eddas keep them from ever entering the City.

It was their hope that the Ringess would recognize them as true seekers and explain to them the mystery of the Elder Eddas and other secrets that only a god might understand.

These seekers of the earthy and very effable delights of his house quickly became a nuisance, and Bardo had to begin issuing invitations to his joyances.

But when practical politicians and power seekers go in for esotericism, the results are apt to be dangerous.

Presbyterian, another an Independent, another a Brownist, another an Antimonian, another an Anabaptist, another a Familist, another for Prelatical government, another a Seeker, another a Papist, and the tenth, it may be, an Atheist, and the eleventh a Jew, and the twelfth a Turk?

I have a small gathering of fellow seekers planned for later this evening, and quite frankly, a guildsman such as I could do with an escort.

So he was a seeker, not a hider, here to track somebody down who was wanted by one of the biggest of the Earth megacorporations.