0 the person who first thinks of something and causes it to happen:
He is best known as the originator of a long-running TV series.
1 the person who first thinks of something and causes it to happen:
2 a person or company that arranges loans or other investments:
Generalizations and even verbatim example sentences are not consistently attributed to their originators, but often to later, secondary sources.
He considered relativity to be a mass illusion cleverly camouflaged by its originator.
This welcome will be enhanced by having the originator of so much of the theory as its author.
Such changes are annotated with the name of their originator.
During that time new historical approaches and techniques have enriched the study of agriculture and have taken the project in directions unforeseen by the originators.
Since there is nothing - apart from the eternal - that is not originated, this ultimate originator must be eternal.
The concatenated tree is, by definition, decomposable to its originators.
Though contemporary members of the community may not be the originators of the customary norm, its continued existence depends on their attitude toward it.