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us⋅er

1  [yoo-zer]
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–noun
1. a person or thing that uses.
2. one who uses drugs, esp. as an abuser or addict.
3. Computers. a person who uses a computer.
Origin:
1350–1400; ME usere; see use, -er 1

us⋅er

2  [oo-zer]
–noun Law.
the exercise of a right to the enjoyment of property.
Origin:
n. use of AF user to use
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us·er   (yōō'zər)   
n.  

  1. One that uses: a user of public transportation.

  2. Law The exercise or enjoyment of a right or property.

  3. One who uses addictive drugs.

The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
Copyright © 2009 by Houghton Mifflin Company.
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Slang Dictionary
user

  1. n.
    a drug user; a drug addict. (Drugs.) : I want to stop being a user, but I can't do it by myself.
Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition.
Copyright 2007. Published by McGraw Hill.
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Computing Dictionary

user
1. Someone doing "real work" with the computer, using it as a means rather than an end. Someone who pays to use a computer. A programmer who will believe anything you tell him. One who asks silly questions without thinking for two seconds or looking in the documentation. Someone who uses a program, however skillfully, without getting into the internals of the program. One who reports bugs instead of just fixing them. See also luser, real user.
Users are looked down on by hackers to some extent because they don't understand the full ramifications of the system in all its glory. The term is relative: a skilled hacker may be a user with respect to some program he himself does not hack. A LISP hacker might be one who maintains LISP or one who uses LISP (but with the skill of a hacker). A LISP user is one who uses LISP, whether skillfully or not. Thus there is some overlap between the two terms; the subtle distinctions must be resolved by context.
2. Any person, organisation, process, device, program, protocol, or system which uses a service provided by others.
The term "client" (as in "client-server" systems) is rather more specific, usually implying two processes communicating via some protocol.
[The Jargon File]
(1996-04-28)

The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing, © 1993-2007 Denis Howe
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