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lumper

[′ləm·pər]
(systematics)
A taxonomist who tends to recognize large taxa.
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Its payment platform is designed specifically for Carriers, Shippers and 3PL to send and receive instant lumper fee payments through the MyLumper electronic system.
MyLumper launches web- and smartphone-based solution
But remember, this was a lumper program; we wanted to hear about them all.
The effect of reporting near misses on large construction projects
To make the effective use of a driver's time to get adequate rest, trucking firms should minimize or eliminate the time a driver spends to count, load, and complete the paperwork, while minimizing the assistance of unnecessary lumpers who may prolong the unloading time.
The impact of hours-of-service regulations on transportation productivity and safety: a summary of findings from the literature
Summary: French "Spiderman" Alain Robert has been charged with criminal trespass and fined after climbing the Petronas towers in Kuala Lumper.
'Spiderman' charged over building climb
He is in the intellectual tradition of a splitter, and not a lumper, in his scholarship.
Foreword: David Fischer, the fox
The lumbering lumper asserts "all abnormal liver tests are anathema
Health underwriting consciousness ... in the best of times
Wilson is a splitter, not a lumper, and consequently she regards the term "British" with so much mistrust that on more than one occasion she brings up England and Englishness right after an eighteenth-century source has invoked the B-word, which may get at some underlying truth but comes across as pedantic anyway.
Tidal waves: the new coastal history
Dr Harrison joins most English medieval economic historians as a lumper, although few would go as far as he does in claiming that not much happened between 1200 and 1750.
David Harrison, The Bridges of Medieval England: Transport and Society, 400-1800
It might be possible to extract other meanings from a comparative analysis of these cities, particularly by focussing on the different cultural milieus in which they existed, but Ruble is certainly entitled to be a lumper rather than a splitter, emphasizing similarities rather than differences.
Ruble, Blair A. Second Metropolis: Pragmatic Pluralism in Gilded Age Chicago, Silver Age Moscow, and Meiji Osaka
This is a fact of our profession," General lumper stated in his October 2004 Chief's Sight Picture [http://www.
Picking up the slack: double duty and stress is the norm when co-workers deploy
US Air Force Chief of Staff Gen John lumper remarked in early 2003.
Drones that sting: combat UAV programs take the offensive
Kuwaiti Airways is expected to resume services to Kuala Lumper International Airport by June 2004.
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