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searchmaster 
n. the officer in charge of an organized search conducted by a search-andÂ-rescue unit.
- 1956 The RCAF searchmaster in charge of the hunt for the missing Trans-Canada Air Lines plane ... said today a search plane . . . may have sighted "what could have been wreckage."
- 1963 The searchmasters have good reason to complain if a search is prolonged unnecessarily.
- 1956 The RCAF searchmaster in charge of the hunt for the missing Trans-Canada Air Lines plane ... said today a search plane . . . may have sighted "what could have been wreckage."