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Discover LudwigThe word "prompter" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to refer to a person who gives assistance to an onstage performer. For example, "The actor was able to deliver his lines with precision thanks to the help of the prompter."
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prompter
noun
The person who does the prompting.
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Buy a nice suit, get a nice haircut and read the words on the prompter in the right order with some semblance of conviction.
Faxes did indeed carve a big chunk out of the business, but messengers hung on, thanks both to the poor quality of faxes and to new technology, such as pagers, which allowed prompter dispatch.Keeping up with the download-and-print world will be trickier.
Henceforth, he told the House of Commons, he would seek parliamentary approval for any "pre-meditated" intervention, while reserving the right to order prompter use of force in the event of a pressing national or humanitarian emergency.
All too often, the quality of care in the NHS falls short of what it should be, says Nicholas Bosanquet, professor of health policy at Imperial College.Money well spent?Despite the flaws, the overall picture is one of a health service providing more, better and prompter treatments for patients.
The government declared a "war on waiting" in 2000, setting goals for prompter treatments at hospitals both for elective operations and in emergency rooms.
Furthermore, it advocates prompter intervention to deal with hospitals in financial trouble.
That is a little disingenuous: if private health care did not offer prompter, better treatment than the NHS, there would be no incentive to take it up.
In 1854 he was engaged as prompter at the Lyceum Theatre by Mme Vestris, an enterprising and important manager.
So when he read someone else's words from the glass screens of the prompter, which involves no smoke but is literally a mirror designed to make it look as if he were directly addressing the audience, it was embarrassing.
The same year he returned to Salzburg for the Emperor Altoum in Puccini's Turandot, while in 2004 he played M Triquet, the old tutor, in Eugene Onegin for WNO at Sadler's Wells Theare in London and M Taupe the prompter in Strauss' Capriccio at the Palais Garnier in Paris.
On his Twitter profile, he describes himself as a "retired broadcaster, politician and opinion prompter", adding with a hint of menace: "And you haven't quite seen the back of me yet".
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