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ˈtrouble-shooter orig. U.S.
[f. trouble n. + shooter.]
1. A person who traces and corrects faults in machinery and equipment (orig. spec. on a telegraph or telephone line). Cf. trouble-hunter, man s.v. trouble n. 7.
1905Strand Mag. Mar. 268/1 A good looking young ‘trouble-shooter’—as a mender of telephone lines is called—had..asked her to marry him. 1913Red Cross Mag. Jan. 34/1 Among them are..the ‘trouble shooters’, highly trained men who are responsible for the repairing of any breaks in the plant or equipment. 1931B. Starke Touch & Go xv. 248 A trouble-shooter for the telephone lines. 1945H. D. Smyth Gen. Acct. Devel. Atomic Energy Mil. Purposes xi. 121 Particularly in the early stages of operation the Berkeley men stationed at Clinton were invaluable as ‘trouble-shooters’ and in instructing operators. 1951Engineering 2 Feb. 133/2 Manufacture..by fully-automatic machine shops..with only a few skilled men as ‘trouble-shooters’. 1959H. Hobson Mission House Murder xxi. 140 A post office electronics expert and trouble-shooter.
2. One who specializes in removing or solving difficulties; esp. a mediator in diplomatic or industrial affairs.
1927Sat. Even. Post 15 Jan. 153/3 With the ‘Trouble-Shooters’ of the North Atlantic Icebergs... Locating and destroying them is the perilous and never-ending duty of the United States Coast Guard cutters. 1933R. C. Mayer How to do Publicity xi. 134 The ‘trouble-shooters’ in publicity deal mostly with such emergencies. 1940R. S. Lambert Ariel & all his Quality iii. 77 The light had gone out of the Talks... His successors were chosen to be what Americans call ‘trouble shooters’. 1953W. R. Burnett Vanity Row iii. 21 He needed an expert trouble-shooter, untainted by police politics. 1962R. B. Fuller Epic Poem on Industrialization 24 Self-helpless old fashioned business War forced to call in..Professional Trouble-shooters. 1971H. Wilson Labour Govt. ix. 136 The appointment of an industrial relations ‘trouble-shooter’ for the industry.
Also ˈtrouble-shooting vbl. n. and ppl. a.; hence (back-formation) trouble-shoot v. trans. and intr., to solve (a problem), to repair; to mediate.
1918V. W. Pagé Aviation Engines 9 Special attention has been paid to instructions on tool equipment, use of tools, trouble ‘shooting’ and engine repairs. 1938E. B. White Let. 18 Nov. (1976) 186 This place teems with trouble of one sort and another. I am up every morning at twenty past six, trouble shooting. 1941Daily Progress (Charlottesville, Virginia) 19 Aug. 1 (heading) Judge Rosenman..is now in capital, trouble-shooting the bottle⁓neck. 1957V. Packard Hidden Persuaders xviii. 208 One firm that provides psychological bug-hunting services to industry cited the service it performed in trouble⁓shooting an employee problem in Ohio. 1964S. Brittan Treasury under Tories ii. 53 The Cabinet's Economic Policy Committee.., over which the Chancellor presides, is mainly a trouble-shooting body. 1969Daily Colonist (Victoria, B.C.) 8 June 2/7 (Advt.), Analyst—reporting to the President—required for troubleshooting all facets of the Victoria winery operation. 1977P. Dickinson Walking Dead iv. ii. 255 His official status in the Company was a string of vague general nouns, but his job was trouble⁓shooting. 1978R. Lewis Inevitable Fatality i. 19 I'm a business consultant... My forte is to troubleshoot, to get in and out again. |