[f. VALUE v. + -ATOR, after VALUATION.] One who estimates the value of things; esp. one appointed or licensed to do so; an appraiser.
1731–2. Swift, Consid. two Bills, Wks. 1841, II. 225/1. I am therefore at a loss what kind of valuators the bishops will make use of.
1820. Hogg, Tales & Sk. (1837), II. 197. The valuator of books made toward the door as fast as his loosened and yielding joints could carry him.
1848. Chambers’s Jrnl., X. 423. A small daily stipend from government as a valuator of Books.
1886. C. Scott, Sheep-Farming, 114. The price is not always agreed upon that day; the valuators sometimes considering it advisable to wait for a time before deciding.
