polluter

From pollute +‎ -er.

polluter (plural polluters)

1. A subject that pollutes, be it a person, company, country, factory or another subject.
   • 1877, E. W. H. Holdsworth, Sea Fisheries, London: Edward Stanford, page 235:

     During the last session of Parliament a Rivers' Pollution Prevention Act was passed, after it had been carefully divested of most of the provisions which could make it objectionable to polluters.

   • 1993 June 21, “EPA getting stuck paying millions”, in The Argus-Press, Owosso, Michigan:

     The Environmental Protection Agency said it gets stuck with the bills because it often can't locate polluters or they are out of business or bankrupt.

   • 2008 July 9, Robert Winnett, Urmee Khan, quoting George W. Bush, “President George Bush: 'Goodbye from the world's biggest polluter'”, in The Telegraph:

     Goodbye from the world's biggest polluter.

• “polluter”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• “polluter”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.