Meaning & use
Rater
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a person or thing that assigns a rating, score, or evaluation to something
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Each rater scored the essays independently before the results were averaged.
The app relies on user raters to keep its restaurant reviews current.
A note on using this word
Common in research methodology, where "inter-rater reliability" measures how consistently different raters score the same thing.
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evaluatorassessor
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