noun
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪
Alberti was the originator of the violin's design even though Stradivari made it famous.
▪
Stokely Carmichael was probably the originator of the term "black power."
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪
Communications services transfer the information from the originator to the recipient.
▪
He excelled in music and is one of the originators of Gregorian chants and the liturgical sequences.
▪
However, not every idea originator has the know-how, the drive, and the aggressiveness to do so.
▪
It contains a major element of truth, even if it is not precisely the truth which its originators intended.
▪
The presidential decision failed to satisfy either the originators of the law or its main critics.