Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

grafter

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: 1.74 in modern English

Syllables: grafter
IPA

11

Scrabble Score

7

Letters

1

Syllables

6

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

One who inserts scions on other stocks, or propagates fruit by engrafting.

noun

An instrument by which grafting is facilitated.

noun

The original tree from which a scion has been taken for grafting upon another tree.

noun

Someone who works in market stalls.

Slang

noun

a hard worker who puts in long hours

British usage; Colloquial

noun

A corrupt person, one who receives graft.

Example Sentences

"If the people are corrupt; if everybody is a grafter, as our pessimistic friends would have us believe, Roosevelt would be unpopular. His popularity is proof that the people, as a whole, are honest."
"It is rather confused rhetoric to call a grafter a thief. His crime is not that he filches money from the safe but that he betrays a trust."
"2007, Rebecca Menes, "Limiting the Reach of the Grabbing Hand: Graft and growth in American Cities, 1880 to 1930", in Edward L. Glaeser, Claudia Goldin (eds.), Corruption and Reform: Lessons from America's Economic History, National Bureau of Economic Research Conference Report, The University of Chicago Press, →ISBN, page 64. Rapid city growth rewarded the circumspect grafter with opportunities for what one famous Tammany Hall politician termed “honest graft” […]."

Etymology

From graft + -er.

Usage

Inflected Forms

grafters (plural)

Frequently Paired Words

graft

Rhymes With

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Questions

What does grafter mean?: One who inserts scions on other stocks, or propagates fruit by engrafting.
Where does grafter come from?: From graft + -er.

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