treater

Other forms of treater

plural

treaters·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about treater

What does treater mean?

treater means "someone who negotiates (confers with others in order to reach a settlement)".

How many syllables are in treater?

treater has 2 syllables: trea-ter. The stress falls on "trea". In IPA it is /ˈtɹitɚ/.

What is another word for treater?

Close synonyms include negotiator, negotiant. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is treater a common word?

treater is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.