handler

CEFRB2

/ˈhænd.lə/

noun

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In plain English

01
noun
A person who manages or trains another person or animal.
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noun
Extra detail
A controller, trainer, someone who handles a specified thing, animal or person (especially a prizefighter).

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Sits at B2 on the CEFR scale

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Extra meanings

An advisor or manager providing guidance to a person occupying public office or a prominent position.
One who handles something (especially manually) or someone.
A subroutine that handles a particular situation such as an event or exception.

In context

Tom is a snake handler.
The governor received guidance on how to best disseminate key information to the public from her handler.
The handler of a weapon gets a symbolic sensation of deadly power.

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Although the airline told them it took such action because they might spread the disease in their capacity as food handlers, neither was offered a transfer to other departments.
1984 December 8, Christine Guilfoy, “United Not Friendly To Workers With AIDS”, in Gay Community News, volume 12, number 21, page 1
They are also very sympathetic, especially Caesar’s orangutan advisor, Maurice (Karin Konoval), who takes a shine to a human moppet (Amiah Miller) he finds hiding in the back of a shack, and the poignant Bad Ape (a scene-stealing Steve Zahn), a mangy chimp who was beaten so often in his zoo-animal days that he came to believe what his handlers were shouting was supposed to be his name.
2017 July 7, Ignatiy Vishnevetsky, “The ambitious War For The Planet Of The Apes ends up surrendering to formula”, in The Onion AV Club
If the expression is a throw, we unwind the stack seeking a handler expression.
2006, Hans-Wolfgang Loidl, Trends in Functional Programming, volume 5, page 62

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From Middle English handler, handiller, equivalent to handle + -er.