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noun

handler n.

One who trains or exhibits animals.

Synonyms: animal trainer.

Someone in charge of training an athlete (especially a boxer) or a team. Note: The term is used sometimes sarcastically of political consultants: "the president's handlers".

Synonyms: coach, manager.

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Etymology of 'Handler'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Handler" Quotes from Famous Books

... of handling pig iron, and this work is chosen because it is typical of perhaps the crudest and most elementary form of labor which is performed by man. This work is done by men with no other implements than their hands. The pig-iron handler stoops down, picks up a pig weighing about 92 pounds, walks for a few feet or yards and then drops it on to the ground or upon a pile. This work is so crude and elementary in its nature that the writer firmly believes that it would ...

— The Principles of Scientific Management • Frederick Winslow Taylor

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