how to pronounce moderator

/ˈmɒd.əɹ.ɛɪ.təɹ/

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moderator is pronounced in four syllables

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An example use of moderator in a speech by a native speaker of british english:

“… bad as a moderator I think there's a …”

meanings of moderator

noun:

The person who presides over a synod of a Presbyterian Church.
Someone who supervises and monitors the setting and marking of examinations by different people to ensure consistency of standards.
A person who enforces the rules of a discussion forum by deleting posts, banning users, etc.
An arbitrator or mediator.
The chair or president of a meeting etc.
A mechanical arrangement for regulating motion in a machine, or producing equality of effect.
At the University of Dublin, either the first (senior) or second (junior) in rank in an examination for the degree of Bachelor of Arts.
A kind of lamp in which the flow of the oil to the wick is regulated.
A substance (often water or graphite) used to decrease the speed of fast neutrons in a nuclear reactor and hence increase likelihood of fission.
A device used to deaden some of the noise from a firearm, although not to the same extent as a suppressor or silencer.
An examiner at Oxford and Cambridge universities.
Someone who moderates.

moderator frequency in english - C2 level of CEFR

the word moderator occurs in english on average 2 times per one million words; this frequency warrants it to be in the study list for C2 level of language mastery according to CEFR, the Common European Framework of Reference.

topics moderator can be related to

it is hard to perfectly classify words into specific topics since each word can have many context of its use, but our machine-learning models believe that moderator can be often used in the following areas:

1) business and work;

2) education, science, and technology;

3) people, society, and culture;