enterer

Enterer is a noun meaning a person who enters information or other data into a record, ledger, or register. The form derives from the verb enter plus the agent noun suffix -er. In historical and administrative contexts, an enterer was the clerk or official responsible for making written entries in ledgers, parish registers, court rolls, or similar records. Typical duties included recording births, marriages, deaths, property transfers, or financial transactions. In certain contexts, such as maritime logs or attendance records, an enterer might be the person documenting arrivals, departures, or events.

Today, the term is relatively uncommon outside specialized or historical writing. Modern usage tends to favor more specific terms such as data entry clerk, records clerk, registrar, or information clerk. When encountered in older documents, enterer often denotes the role of someone who performed a formal entry in a record-keeping volume. In contemporary prose, if the intention is simply to describe someone who inputs information, a more precise term is usually preferred to avoid ambiguity.

See also: entry, register, ledger, logbook, data entry, registrar, record keeper.