Meanings
nouncontact tracer (plural contact tracers)
plural contact tracers · alternative contact-tracer
- epidemiologyA person engaged in contact tracing.
Contact tracing was used in Wuhan, where 1,800 teams of five people went house to house, and Ireland last week said it would recruit 1,400 contact tracers.
2020 April 7, James Tapper, “Recruit volunteer army to trace coronavirus contacts now, urge top scientists”, in The Guardian
Translations
Hungarian kontaktkutató
- kontaktkutatóperson engaged in contact tracing
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APA
contact tracer. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/contact%20tracer
MLA
“contact tracer.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/contact%20tracer. Accessed November 2, 2026.
Chicago
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “contact tracer,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/contact%20tracer.
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