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coder (plural coders)

1. A device that generates a code, often as a series of pulses.
2. A person who assigns codes or classifications.
   • 2007, Gerald J. Miller, Kaifeng Yang, Handbook of Research Methods in Public Administration, page 715:

     Others may be subjective ratings made by the coders who independently read the studies, such as sex stereotype of the job […]

3. (computing) A programmer (computer programmer).

   Synonym: code monkey (humorous or derogatory)

   Hyponyms: clean coder, vibe coder

   • 2016 May 7, Sara Ashley O'Brien, “Girls Who Code taps four teen girls for YouTube series”, in CNN Business‎^[1], archived from the original on 27 June 2022:

     Part of the series' goal was to change how coders are perceived -- and show the community that it offers.

   • 2017 August 21, Haley Draznin, “Girls Who Code founder: Men build technologies to 'replace their mothers'”, in CNN Business‎^[2], archived from the original on 17 May 2025:

     Reshma Saujani is not a coder but she's empowering "an army of young women" to take on tech's gender gap through her nonprofit Girls Who Code.

• (one who assigns codes, for classification or otherwise): clinical coder, medical coding; encrypter

• OCRed, credo, cored, Dorce, decor, décor

From code +‎ -er.

• IPA^(key): /kɔ.de/

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coder

1. to code; to encode

• chiffrer
• crypter
• décoder

• “coder”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012

• corde, cordé, crédo, décor