Definition of "originator" []

• Someone who originates, creates or founds something. (noun)

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• "Delicious irony: the best candidate for the originator is a chap called Mack."
• "It has a certain mystique about it, perhaps because its originator is Jim Miekka, a blind physics instructor."
• "Mr. BOVE: All these people want to send those loans back to the originator, and the originator is going to fight, you know, not to take them all."