relator noun. [rɪ'leɪtǝ] L16.
[Latin, formed as RELATE verb: see -OR.]
1. = RELATER. L16.

2. Law. A person who recounts a complaint or claim for an information by the Attorney-General (cf. RELATION 1b); Hist. a person who filed an application for a quo warranto or mandamus, or on whose behalf this was done. E17.

3. Grammar. An element of a sentence, esp. a preposition, which relates one phrase to another. M20.

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