trouble shooter

1. 1.

   a worker whose job is to locate and fix sources of trouble (especially in mechanical devices)

   Synonymstroubleshooter

   Broaderrepairman

Questions about trouble shooter

What does trouble shooter mean?

trouble shooter means "a worker whose job is to locate and fix sources of trouble (especially in mechanical devices)".

What is another word for trouble shooter?

Close synonyms include troubleshooter. 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 trouble shooter a common word?

trouble shooter 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.