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designer

[ dih-zahy-ner ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

noun

a person who devises or executes designs, especially one who creates forms, structures, and patterns, as for works of art or machines.
a schemer, intriguer, or plotter.

designed or created by or carrying a label or identification of a designer, especially a fashion designer, but often mass-produced:
designer jeans.
created for intentional effect through chemical or genetic modification, as for a designer drug, or through crossbreeding, as for a designer dog.

designer

/ dɪˈzaɪnə /

a person who devises and executes designs, as for works of art, clothes, machines, etc
modifier designed by and bearing the label or signature of a well-known fashion designer
designer jeans
modifier (of things, ideas, etc) having an appearance of fashionable trendiness
designer pop songs
designer stubble
modifier (of cells, chemicals, etc) designed (or produced) to perform a specific function or combat a specific problem
designer insecticide
modifier (of an animal) cross-bred for a specific purpose, such as looks, temperament, or likelihood of causing an allergy
designer dogs
a person who devises plots or schemes; intriguer

First recorded in 1640–50; design + -er ¹

A few years back, designer John Galliano was fined by the government for sharing just such anti-semitic sentiments in public.

His neighbors include some of the other designer outposts one finds speckled around the area.

Her daughter, Elaina, 24, a trained costume designer and makeup artist, helps out by sewing clothes.

Early in her career, she and designer Madeleine Vionnet sued a woman in Paris for copying some 20,000 sketches of their designs.

Spanning more than 150 years, the exhibit exhaustively distinguishes designer pieces from licensed copies, adaptations, and fakes.

You stayed there for five days, with your very good friend, Daisy Hennifer, the jewelry designer.

But Lasseroe was a maniac now and he wanted to take the life away from the jewelry designer.

The books lining the walls were real, he noticed idly—another painstaking point by the designer of the palace.

Who could look upon such a scene and not praise the Designer?

There may be a struggle outside the design, in the mind of the designer.

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