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Other than simple words (beer, career, cheer, deer, leer, queer, and sheer), the suffix form -eer is usually applied to persons (or their actions in the case of the verb "commandeer"). The root nouns or verbs establish the activity or locale for the individuals involved, e.g. "gazetteer", "mutineer" and "mountaineer". More esoteric is the science-fiction neologism "rocketeer".

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