prompter

prompter
/promp"teuhr/, n.
1. a person or thing that prompts.
2. Theat. a person who is offstage and follows a play in progress from the book, repeating missed cues and supplying actors with forgotten lines.
3. an electronic or mechanical device for prompting a speaker or performer. Cf. TelePrompTer.
[1400-50; late ME; see PROMPT, -ER1]

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