OPTICIAN

[noun] [C] UKAn optician (also ophthalmic optician, [esp. US] and ANZ optometrist) is someone who is specially trained, and whose job it is, to examine a person's eyes and sell them glasses or other things to correct sight problems.Compare ophthalmologist at opthalmology.(US) An optician (UK dispensing optician) is a person whose job it is to sell people glasses and other things to correct sight problems, but who does not examine people's eyes.