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1. A person who enjoys reading
    
2. Someone who contracts to receive and pay for a service or a certain number of issues of a publication
   - subscriber
    
3. A person who can read; a literate person
    
4. Someone who reads manuscripts and judges their suitability for publication
   - reviewer, referee
    
5. Someone who reads proof in order to find errors and mark corrections
   - proofreader
    
6. Someone who reads the lessons in a church service; someone ordained in a minor order of the Roman Catholic Church
   - lector
    
7. One of a series of texts for students learning to read
    
8. [Brit] A university lecturer, the highest rank below a professor
    
9. A device for obtaining information from something, e.g. a card reader or microfilm reader

Derived forms: readers

Type of: bookman, clergyman, client, critic, customer, Holy Order, literate, literate person, man of the cloth, Order, pressman, printer, reverend, scholar, scholarly person, school text, schoolbook, text, text edition, textbook

Encyclopedia: Reader, Peter