expeller

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UK/ɪkˈspɛlə/Canada, US/ɪkˈspɛlɚ/Australia/ɪkˈspelə/

noun

Someone or something that expels.

RareScrabble 17

Meanings

nounexpeller (plural expellers)

plural expellers

  1. Someone or something that expels.

    The latter, for example, are overheard dismissing the former as mere “quantoids”—as if quantitative methods turn those who deploy them into machinelike expellers of numeric waste.

    2015, Immanuel Wallerstein, Carlos Aguirre Rojas, Charles C. Lemert, Uncertain Worlds: World-systems Analysis in Changing Times
    1. A machine that removes most of the oil from oilseeds to form oil cake.

Origin

Translations

Latin exactor
  • exactoranything that expels
Cite this entry
APA

expeller. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/expeller

MLA

“expeller.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/expeller. Accessed November 2, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “expeller,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/expeller.

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