exterminator

exterminator
exterminator c.1400, "an angel who expells (people from a country)," from L.L. exterminator, from L. exterminatus, pp. stem of exterminare (see EXTERMINATE (Cf. exterminate)). As a substance for ridding a place of rats, etc., by 1848. As a person whose job it is to do this, by 1938.

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