Search Result:floater
Overview of noun floater
The noun floater has 8 senses
- musca volitans, muscae volitantes, floater, spots -- (spots before the eyes caused by opaque cell fragments in the vitreous humor and lens; "floaters seem to drift through the field of vision")
- floater -- (a debt instrument with a variable interest rate tied to some other interest rate (e.g. the rate paid by T-bills))
- vagrant, drifter, floater, vagabond -- (a wanderer who has no established residence or visible means of support)
- floater -- (an employee who is reassigned from job to job as needed)
- floater -- (a voter who votes illegally at different polling places in the same election)
- floater -- (a swimmer who floats in the water)
- floater -- (an object that floats or is capable of floating)
- floater, floating policy -- (an insurance policy covering loss of movable property (e.g. jewelry) regardless of its location)