decoratordec‧o‧ra‧tor /ˈdekəreɪtə $ -ər/ noun [countable] especially British English - My uncle Bill's been a painter and decorator all his life.
- The decorators have left their ladders and paints all over the house -- it a real mess.
- We've had the decorators in all week.
- We wanted the work to be done properly, so we decided to get the decorators in.
- As an interior decorator, Paula Curry was a real professional.
- He sent decorators to pick out carpet and paint schemes for a new training facility in Anaheim, Calif.
- I shook my head and told him that I was not a decorator and would not engage one.
- Porter's Lexington team handled the sales project, with decorator contributing her colour expertise.
- She considered the builders and decorators at Hillmarden were being unconscionably slow.
- That Tiepolo was merely a supreme decorator is one of the notions this show wants to dispel.
- They would have the decorators in.
someone who decorates► decorator British someone who paints houses and puts paper on the walls as their job: · We've had the decorators in all week.· My uncle Bill's been a painter and decorator all his life.
► interior designer/decorator someone whose job is to plan and choose the colours, materials, furniture etc for the inside of people's houses: · They hired an interior designer to redo the entire office.
someone who paints walls, houses etc as their job► painter someone who paints walls, houses etc as their job: · The painters are upstairs painting the offices at the moment.house painter: · Adolf Hitler worked as a house painter in Austria before becoming involved in politics.
► decorator someone whose job is to paint houses and put paper on the walls inside: · The decorators have left their ladders and paints all over the house -- it a real mess.· We wanted the work to be done properly, so we decided to get the decorators in.
► painter and decorator British English
ADJECTIVE► interior· He could have been put there by the interior decorators.· As an interior decorator, Paula Curry was a real professional.· Artists a category which included interior decorators and lowly house-painters were not concentrated in any particular quarter.· These were not the trappings of some Victorianising interior decorator.· Interested firms of interior decorators have been tendering for the work of which Mrs Lamont is expected to take charge.
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