Meaning & use
aggregator
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Meanings
nouncountablecomputing
A website or app that collects and shows content from many different sources in one place.
Grammar: Countable: 'an aggregator', 'two aggregators'.
Patterns
- news aggregator
- price-comparison aggregator
I use a news aggregator to read headlines from several papers at once.
The price-comparison aggregator shows offers from dozens of airlines.
Social-media aggregators pull updates from your friends into one feed.
nouncountablebusiness
A person or organization that gathers information or products from various places.
Grammar: Often used in business contexts.
Patterns
- data aggregator
- content aggregator
The company acts as an aggregator, buying tickets from many sellers and reselling them.
Data aggregators collect public records and make them searchable.
Word forms
| plural | aggregators |
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Common combinations
- news aggregator
- Google News is a popular news aggregator.
- price-comparison aggregator
- A price-comparison aggregator can save you money on hotels.
- data aggregator
- The data aggregator compiled statistics from ten different surveys.
Synonyms and how they differ
- collector
- Collector is a general word for a person who gathers things; aggregator is used for digital services that combine content automatically.
Word family
- aggregate verb
- To collect separate items into one whole.
- aggregation noun
- The process or result of combining things.
- aggregative adjective
- Relating to combining separate parts.
Practice
What is an aggregator?
Choose one answer.
An aggregator collects and displays content from various sources. The other options describe unrelated things.
Make it your own
Write a sentence using “aggregator”, then check it and compare it with the examples above.