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inventor
/ɪnˈventər/ noun [C]Definition
› someone who has invented something, or whose job is to invent things: the inventor of sth Thomas Edison was the inventor of the electric light bulb.
(Definition of inventor noun from the Cambridge Business English Dictionary
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