Re: end user vs end-user

[Goober Writer <gooberwriter -at- yahoo -dot- com>]

> > Cute. And accurate as far as it goes. But I
> question the need for the 
> > word _end_; why not just _user_?
> 
> Sometimes the distinction is meaningful.  You may,
> for example, be selling a system to a company where
> on the one hand there will be a small corps of 
> administrative users customizing and running the
> system, 
> while on the other hand there will be hundreds of
> end 
> users logging on to take advantage of the system's 
> services.  

Well, why not "administrator" and "user"?

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