selector Synonyms
Another word for selector
• noun (Context 1)
A person who chooses or picks out someone or something, especially a member of a committee responsible for choosing players for a sports team.
"The national team selectors met on Monday to finalize the squad for the upcoming tournament."
• noun (Context 2)
A mechanical, electrical, or electronic switch or control device used to choose a particular setting, gear, channel, or mode of operation.
"She turned the input switch on the amplifier to switch from the turntable to the radio."
• noun (Context 3)
In Jamaican reggae, dancehall, and sound-system culture, a disc jockey who chooses and plays recorded music for an audience.
"The crowd cheered as the disc jockey dropped a classic roots reggae track on the turntable."
• noun (Context 4)
In Australian history, a settler who acquired and farmed a tract of Crown land under government-sponsored Free Selection Acts in the 19th century.
"Life for a nineteenth-century homesteader in the Australian bush was marked by hard labor and unpredictable droughts."