coordinator

See also: coördinator and co-ordinator

English

Alternative forms

• coördinator (rare, archaic)
• co-ordinator

Etymology

coordinate +‎ -or

Pronunciation

• Audio (US):

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Noun

coordinator (plural coordinators)

1. One who coordinates.
2. (sports, chiefly American football) An assistant coach responsible for a particular facet of the game, such as defense.
3. (grammar) A member of a lexical class of words that joins two or more items (such as words, phrases, or clauses) of equal syntactic importance.

   Synonym: coordinating conjunction

Derived terms

• intimacy coordinator

 

Related terms

• subordinator
• conjunction

Descendants

• → Japanese: コーディネーター (kōdinētā)

Translations

One who coordinates

• Armenian: համակարգող (hamakargoġ)
• Catalan: coordinador (ca) m, coordinadora (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 協調者／协调者 (xiétiáoyuán)

• Czech: koordinátor m
• Finnish: koordinaattori
• French: coordonnateur (fr) m, coordonnatrice (fr) f, coordinateur (fr) m, coordinatrice (fr) f
• Galician: coordinador m
• German: Koordinator (de) m, Koordinatorin (de) f
• Greek: συντονιστής (el) m (syntonistís), συντονίστρια (el) f (syntonístria)
• Indonesian: koordinator (id)
• Italian: coordinatore (it) m, coordinatrice (it) f
• Japanese: コーディネーター (ja) (kōdinētā)
• Maori: kairuruku
• Norman: co-ordînateu m (Jersey)
• Polish: koordynator (pl) m, koordynatorka f
• Romanian: coordonator (ro) m
• Russian: координа́тор (ru) m (koordinátor)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: коордѝна̄тор m

  Roman: koordìnātor (sh) m

• Spanish: coordinador (es) m, coordinadora (es) f

a lexical class of words — see also coordinating conjunction

• Spanish: conjunción coordinante (es) f, nexo coordinante (es) m