spooler

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spooler

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From spool + -er.

noun spoolers

A device or person that winds thread onto a spool. She again started to work for Respondent in November 1974 as a spooler and was thereafter laid off in January 1975. She commenced working again for Respondent in February 1975 as an oiler in the weave room on the first shift […]
A program or process that spools (places data in a queue to be accessed later). The print spooler sends each page to the printer when it is ready for it.

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noun a computer program that queues data

Italiano	gestore code stampa

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@misc{spooler_2026,
  title = {spooler},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/spooler},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}