Thruster

Definitions

1. One who thrusts, who pushes or stabs.
2. A device for propelling an object, especially a spacecraft or a ship (marine vessel).
3. A bow thruster or a stern thruster.
4. 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.

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Examples

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

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