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発音

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈθɹʌ.stɚ/
• 韻: -ʌstə(ɹ)

名詞

thruster (複数形 thrusters)

1. One who thrusts, who pushes or stabs.
   • 1978, Brian Inglis, The Book of the Back, page 109:

     Nevertheless osteopaths are coming to regard themselves not so much as thrusters, or even as repositioners, of bones, but as releasers of the patient's own recuperative forces.

2. A device for propelling an object, especially a spacecraft or a ship (marine vessel).
3. (nautical) A bow thruster or a stern thruster.
4. (surfing) A surfboard (usually a shortboard) with three fins of approximately equal size, one centred at the back, one on each side about 25cm forward and out near the rails.
5. An ambitious, driven person; a go-getter.
   • 1973, Director, volume 25, numbers 7-12, page 346:

     The executive is a thruster with ideas to expand or improve the business and his superiors fail to react—for whatever reason—and do not give acceptable explanations.

   • 2006, Robert Graham, How to Write Fiction (And Think About It), page 16:

     His hi-spec gear suggests that he's a corporate high-flyer and he's definitely a bit of a thruster, very much in control, taking care of business.

下位語

• bow thruster
• Shkadov thruster
• stern thruster

派生語

アナグラム

• truthers