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1. An object that floats or is capable of floating
    
2. Spots before the eyes caused by opaque cell fragments in the vitreous humour and lens
   "floaters seem to drift through the field of vision";
   - musca volitans, muscae volitantes
    
3. A wanderer who has no established residence or visible means of support
   - vagrant, drifter, vagabond, clochard
    
4. An employee who is reassigned from job to job as needed
    
5. A voter who votes illegally at different polling places in the same election
    
6. A swimmer who floats in the water
    
7. An insurance policy covering loss of movable property (e.g. jewellery) regardless of its location
   - floating policy
    
8. A debt instrument with a variable interest rate tied to some other interest rate (e.g. the rate paid by T-bills)

Derived forms: floaters

Type of: article, bather, bird of passage, certificate of indebtedness, debt instrument, elector, employe [US], employee, have-not, insurance, insurance policy, natator, object, obligation, physical object, policy, poor person, roamer, rover, swimmer, symptom, voter, wanderer

Encyclopedia: Floater