captioner

English

Etymology

From caption +‎ -er.

Noun

captioner (plural captioners)

1. One who, or that which, adds captions.
   • 2004, Gary D. Robson, The Closed Captioning Handbook, Elsevier, page 177:

     Some captioners will raise or lower the captions in the center by one row to add one more subtle differentiation, but this is uncommon.

   • 2007, Ferguson's Careers in Focus: Broadcasting, 3rd edition, Ferguson (imprint), Infobase Publishing, page 123,

     In the broadcast setting, real-time captioners do not have to produce transcripts, which eliminates the long hours that go along with that aspect of reporting.

   • 2009 September 24, Mark Lawson, “The problems of subtitling the news”, in Guardian‎:

     And how relieved the Ceefax captioners must be that Sir Alex Ferguson still refuses to give interviews to Match of the Day, because of a BBC documentary that upset him.

Anagrams

• pre-action, preaction, precation, recaption