# pager
## English
### Etymology

From page +‎ -er (agent noun suffix) or +‎ -er (measurement suffix) (sense 3).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /peɪd͡ʒə(ɹ)/, enPR: pāʹjər
* Audio (UK):(file)
* Audio (US):(file)
* Rhymes: -eɪdʒə(ɹ)
* Hyphenation: pag‧er

### Noun

pager (plural pagers)
* (telecommunications) A wireless telecommunications device that receives text or voice messages.
    Synonym: beeper
** 1991, Stephen King, Needful Things, page 355:Before he could bring it down, the pager clipped to his belt went off. Alan pushed the button that turned the hateful gadget off and stood indecisively in front of the shop door a moment longer […]
* (computing) A computer program running in a text terminal, used to view (but not modify) the contents of a text file moving down the file one line or one screen at a time.
** 2006, James Duncan Davidson, Jason Deraleau, Running Mac OS X Tiger, O'Reilly, →ISBN, page 73:more is a pager. The basic purpose of a pager is that it lets you view the contents of a file without actually having to open the file.
* (in combination) Something (a document, book etc.) that has a specified number of pages.
** 2019, Vincent DiGirolamo, Crying the News: A History of America's Newsboys, Oxford: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, pages 309–310:Sunday papers kept growing in bulk, however. The Boston Globe's standard eight-page Sunday offering swelled to forty pages in 1895, and sixty pages soon after. The New York World issued a record-breaking hundred-pager in 1893 to celebrate its tenth anniversary under Pulitzer's ownership.
* (bookbinding) One who makes up type into pages of a book; one who binds or sorts pages into a book.

#### Related terms

* back-pager
* eight-pager
* one-pager

#### Translations
### Further reading

* pager on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
* terminal pager on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

### Anagrams

* gaper, grape, parge

## Javanese
### Romanization

pager
* Romanization of ꦥꦒꦼꦂ

## Polish
### Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English pager.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈpɛj.d͡ʐɛr/
* Rhymes: -ɛjd͡ʐɛr
* Syllabification: pa‧ger

### Noun

pager m inan
* (electronics, telecommunications) pager, beeper (wireless telecommunications device that receives text or voice messages)
    Synonym: biper

#### Declension
### Further reading

* pager in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
* pager in Polish dictionaries at PWN
* pager in PWN's encyclopedia

## Portuguese
### Pronunciation

* (Brazil) IPA: /ˈpej.d͡ʒeʁ/ [ˈpeɪ̯.d͡ʒeh]
* (Brazil) IPA: /ˈpej.d͡ʒeʁ/ [ˈpeɪ̯.d͡ʒeh]
** (São Paulo) IPA: /ˈpej.d͡ʒeɾ/ [ˈpeɪ̯.d͡ʒeɾ]
** (Rio de Janeiro) IPA: /ˈpej.d͡ʒeʁ/ [ˈpeɪ̯.d͡ʒeχ]
** (Southern Brazil) IPA: /ˈpej.d͡ʒeɻ/ [ˈpeɪ̯.d͡ʒeɻ]
* (Portugal) IPA: /ˈpɐj.d͡ʒɛɾ/ [ˈpɐj.ðʒɛɾ]
* (Portugal) IPA: /ˈpɐj.d͡ʒɛɾ/ [ˈpɐj.ðʒɛɾ]
** (Northern Portugal) IPA: /ˈpej.d͡ʒɛɾ/ [ˈpej.ðʒɛɾ]
** (Central Portugal) IPA: /ˈpej.d͡ʒɛɾ/ [ˈpej.ðʒɛɾ]
** (Southern Portugal) IPA: /ˈpe.d͡ʒɛɾ/ [ˈpe.ðʒɛɾ]
* Hyphenation: pa‧ger

### Noun

pager m (plural pagers)
* pager (device used for sending and receiving electronic messages)

## Romanian
### Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English pager.

### Noun

pager n (plural pagere)
* (dated) pager (device that receives text messages)

#### Declension
## Swedish
### Noun

pager
* indefinite plural of page