Definition of "gearmaker" [gearmaker]

• A manufacturer of gears. (noun)
• A manufacturer of any type of equipment. (noun)

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• "It was a seductive idea when the Swedish telecommunications gearmaker Ericsson first came up with it."
• "The Motorola and General Electric vet took the top job at the Toronto-based telecommunications gearmaker a little more than a year ago with one mission: crawl out from under the accounting and management problems left by predecessors John Roth and Frank Dunn."
• "Cisco Systems Inc., the top manufacturer of networking equipment and a competitor to Avaya, slumped 11 percent last year, while rival gearmaker Juniper Networks Inc. dropped 45 percent."