troubleshooter

noun

trou·​ble·​shoot·​er ˈtrə-bəl-ˌshü-tər How to pronounce troubleshooter (audio)
1
: a skilled worker employed to locate trouble and make repairs in machinery and technical equipment
2
: an expert in resolving diplomatic or political disputes : a mediator of disputes that are at an impasse
3
: a person skilled at solving or anticipating problems or difficulties

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The location had two other poll books in use at the time, and a third replacement poll book was delivered by a board troubleshooter, according to the release. Erin Couch, The Enquirer, 7 Nov. 2024 Eversource has crews both from Connecticut and responding from surrounding states working around the clock, including 100 troubleshooters, over 300 additional line crews and another 100 on the way later Thursday, Sullivan said. Justin Muszynski, Hartford Courant, 27 June 2024 Sarkissian admires Botswana for its economic prudence and efficient governance, Singapore for aggressively becoming an economic force and diplomatic troubleshooter, and Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan al-Nahyan, the founder of the UAE, for wrangling the different emirates into a single entity. Shivshankar Menon, Foreign Affairs, 23 Apr. 2024 James Dobbins, a US diplomatic troubleshooter whose assignments included reopening the embassy in Kabul after the 2001 invasion and then returning more than a decade later as a special envoy during a grinding war and fading hopes of stabilizing Afghanistan, died July 3 at a hospital in Washington. Brian Murphy, BostonGlobe.com, 8 July 2023 See all Example Sentences for troubleshooter 

Word History

First Known Use

1905, in the meaning defined at sense 1

Time Traveler
The first known use of troubleshooter was in 1905

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troubleshooter

noun
trou·​ble·​shoot·​er -ˌshüt-ər How to pronounce troubleshooter (audio)
: a person who troubleshoots

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