[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

floater \float"er\, n.
   1. one who floats or swims.
      1913 webster

   2. a float for indicating the height of a liquid surface.
      1913 webster

   3. politics
      a a voter who shifts from party to party, esp. one whose
          vote is purchasable. u. s.
      b a person, as a delegate to a convention or a member of
          a legislature, who represents an irregular
          constituency, as one formed by a union of the voters
          of two counties neither of which has a number
          sufficient to be allowed a or an extra
          representative of its own. u. s.
      c a person who votes illegally in various polling places
          or election districts, either under false registration
          made by himself or under the name of some properly
          registered person who has not already voted. u. s.
          webster 1913 suppl.

[2] : WordNet (r) 2.0

floater
     n 1: spots before the eyes caused by opaque cell fragments in the
          vitreous humor and lens syn: musca volitans, muscae
          volitantes, spots
     2: a debt instrument with a variable interest rate tied to some
        other interest rate e.g. the rate paid by t-bills
     3: a wanderer who has no established residence or visible means
        of support syn: vagrant, drifter, vagabond
     4: an employee who is reassigned from job to job as needed
     5: a voter who votes illegally at different polling places in
        the same election
     6: a swimmer who floats in the water
     7: an object that floats or is capable of floating
     8: an insurance policy covering loss of movable property e.g.
        jewelry regardless of its location syn: floating policy
see also:
musca volitans muscae volitantes spots vagrant drifter vagabond 
floating policy 

[3] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

47 moby thesaurus words for "floater":
   ahasuerus, ancient mariner, argonaut, flying dutchman, goliard,
   odysseus, oisin, ossian, ulysses, ballot-box stuffer, balloter,
   bird of passage, bum, derelict, drifter, elector, fraudulent voter,
   gad, gadabout, go-about, hobo, itinerant, mover, peregrinator,
   peregrine, peripatetic, proxy, rambler, registered voter, repeater,
   roamer, rolling stone, rover, runabout, straggler, street arab,
   stroller, strolling player, tramp, troubadour, vag, vagrant,
   visitant, voter, wanderer, wandering minstrel, wandering scholar

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