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From space +‎ -er.

• IPA^(key): /ˈspeɪsə(ɹ)/

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• Rhymes: -eɪsə(ɹ)

spacer (plural spacers)

1. (sometimes science fiction) A person who works or lives in space.
   • 1954, Isaac Asimov, The Caves of Steel:

     It was the futile throwing back in the face of the Spacers their most keenly felt insult: their insistence on considering the natives of Earth as disgustingly diseased.

2. An object inserted to hold a space open in a row of items, e.g. beads or printed type.
3. A bushing.
4. (slang) A forgetful person; one who spaces out.
5. (medicine) A type of add-on device used by an asthmatic person to increase the effectiveness of a metered-dose inhaler.
6. (historical) An instrument for reversing a telegraphic current, especially in a marine cable, to increase the speed of transmission.

• CASREP, Casper, Pacers, Scaper, capers, crapes, e-scrap, escarp, pacers, parsec, recaps, scaper, scrape, secpar

Borrowed from German spazieren, Spazier(gang), from Italian spaziare, from Latin spatiāri.

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spacer m inan (diminutive spacerek)

1. stroll, walk

   Synonym: przechadzka

• spacer in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
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