1. Someone making a search or inquiry
   "The searcher spent hours looking through old records";
   - seeker, quester
    
2. A customs official whose job is to search baggage or goods or vehicles for contraband or dutiable items
   "The searcher meticulously inspected each suitcase at the border crossing"
    
3. Large metallic blue-green beetle that preys on caterpillars; found in North America
   "The searcher beetle hunted for gypsy moth caterpillars";
   - searcher beetle, Calosoma scrutator

Derived forms: searchers

Type of: actor, calosoma, doer, functionary, official, worker

Encyclopedia: Searcher