treaters
Those who pay
Treaters are people who provide treats or entertainment for others.
The word appears most commonly around Halloween, where trick-or-treaters go door to door in costume seeking candy.
Outside this compound, treaters occasionally refers to those who pay for others' meals or outings: The treaters picked up the tab for everyone at the table.
Those who donate
- donorsPeople who give gifts
- benefactorsGivers of aid
- hostsThose who entertain guests
- providersThose who furnish
philanthropists · kindness · sharing · goodwill · charity · benevolence · altruism · hospitality
Licensed medical practitioners
- physiciansMedical doctors collectively
- therapistsMental health professionals
- healersThose who treat ailments
- practitionersPeople who perform a discipline
clinicians · specialists · nurses · patients · diagnosis · care · medicine · healthcare
Clothes for assuming roles
- door-to-doorDirectly between residences
- jack-o'-lanternsCarved pumpkins with lights
- pumpkinsLarge orange autumn gourds
- spookyUnsettlingly strange
haunted · ghosts · witches · vampires · zombies · masks · decorations · neighborhood
Those who entertain guests
- entertainersThose who amuse others
- welcomersThose who receive arrivals
- caterersHired food service professionals
- serversMachines providing network resources
providers · guests · visitors · refreshments · snacks · offerings · receptions · gatherings
givers
Those who donate
- donorsPeople who give gifts
- benefactorsGivers of aid
- hostsThose who entertain guests
providers · philanthropists · kindness · sharing · goodwill · charity · benevolence · altruism · hospitality · magnanimity
doctors
Licensed medical practitioners
- physiciansMedical doctors collectively
- therapistsMental health professionals
- healersThose who treat ailments
practitioners · clinicians · specialists · nurses · patients · diagnosis · care · medicine · healthcare · providers
costumes
Clothes for assuming roles
- door-to-doorDirectly between residences
- jack-o'-lanternsCarved pumpkins with lights
- pumpkinsLarge orange autumn gourds
spooky · haunted · ghosts · witches · vampires · zombies · masks · decorations · neighborhood · doorbells
hosts
Those who entertain guests
- entertainersThose who amuse others
- welcomersThose who receive arrivals
- caterersHired food service professionals
servers · providers · guests · visitors · refreshments · snacks · offerings · receptions · gatherings · celebrations
- oilfield suppliesdrill bits, drill pipe, casing, tubing, wellhead
- seed processingcleaning, threshing, winnowing, hulling, shelling
treatersmoochers
Those who beg habitually
freeloaders · scroungers · spongers · cheapskates · tightwads
treatersrecipients
Those who receive
guests · beneficiaries · receivers · giftees
- treated like dirt
- pressure-treated woodChemically preserved building material
- treated with respect
- treated like cattle
- treated woodChemically protected timber
- pressure treatedChemically preserved against decay