variants
or compradore
as in middleman
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Recent Examples of comprador
His grandfather was a comprador, or business intermediary, for Jardine Matheson, the British trading house, in its dealings between China and colonial Hong Kong.
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Jonathan Kandell, BostonGlobe.com, 30 May 2020
His father, a comprador for Sassoon, another powerful British trading house, went broke during the 1930s and moved to Southeast Asia, leaving his family behind in poverty.
—Jonathan Kandell, BostonGlobe.com, 30 May 2020
His great uncle was Sir Robert Hotung, the rich Eurasian comprador, who was the first Chinese man to live on Hong Kong's Peak, a wealthy district where only Westerners had been allowed to reside.
—Paul French, CNN, 30 May 2020
Jonathan Kandell, BostonGlobe.com, 30 May 2020
His father, a comprador for Sassoon, another powerful British trading house, went broke during the 1930s and moved to Southeast Asia, leaving his family behind in poverty.
—Jonathan Kandell, BostonGlobe.com, 30 May 2020
His great uncle was Sir Robert Hotung, the rich Eurasian comprador, who was the first Chinese man to live on Hong Kong's Peak, a wealthy district where only Westerners had been allowed to reside.
—Paul French, CNN, 30 May 2020
Recent Examples of Synonyms for comprador
Noun
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Slash the federal middleman and send that money straight to classrooms: new books, better classrooms, and maybe a teacher who’s not juggling two jobs.—
Ryan J. Taylor,
Boston Herald,
20 Mar. 2025
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The Office of Insurance Regulation is demanding the unusual trove of data from pharmacy benefit managers — health care industry middlemen that Gov. Ron DeSantis and others have blamed for skyrocketing drug prices and monopolistic behavior.—
Lawrence Mower,
Miami Herald,
17 Mar. 2025
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It was negotiated in part by representatives from Qatar, who have worked as intermediaries between the U.S. and the Taliban.—
Joseph Wilkinson,
New York Daily News,
30 Mar. 2025
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Audiences like watching capable problem solvers, and because fixers tend to be intermediaries, they aren’t directly involved in the bad stuff.—
Daniel Fienberg,
HollywoodReporter,
28 Mar. 2025
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Reinaldo Herrera, an arbiter of the social set and international style, has died at the age of 91.—
Rosemary Feitelberg,
WWD,
18 Mar. 2025
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The appearance of the four justice attendees comes as the court serves as the final arbiter of the dozens of legal challenges mounted against Trump’s blizzard of early actions.—
Anthony Robledo,
USA TODAY,
5 Mar. 2025
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Two former Orland Park police officers, including one who an arbitrator ruled should be reinstated to his job, filed lawsuits against the village in federal court in Chicago.—
Mike Nolan,
Chicago Tribune,
21 Mar. 2025
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The arrest comes less than a year after an arbitrator awarded Netflix $8.8 million in damages over arbitration initiated by Rinsch, who alleged the streaming giant had breached their contract and owed him at least $14 million.—
Saba Hamedy,
NBC News,
18 Mar. 2025
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Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth's younger brother, Phil Hegseth, is currently serving in a prominent role at the Pentagon as a Department of Homeland Security liaison and senior adviser, Hegseth's office confirmed Thursday.—
Ron Estes,
MSNBC Newsweek,
28 Mar. 2025
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Jennifer is the council liaison to a variety of city boards, among them the Downtown Naperville Alliance, the Transportation Advisory Board and the Naperville Environment and Sustainability Task Force.—
Naperville Sun,
Chicago Tribune,
28 Mar. 2025
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According to court papers, the case took a long time as the parties produced extensive evidence, including more than 910,000 pages of documents and multiple terabytes of click data from Google, and participated in six mediation sessions before four different mediators.—
Jonathan Stempel,
USA Today,
28 Mar. 2025
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And that then triggers these cells, called the mast cells, to release all these inflammatory mediators, like histamine and other kinds of mediators, like nutrients, which can have kind of profound effects.—
Ron Estes,
MSNBC Newsweek,
28 Mar. 2025
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Even historically celebrated geniuses like Albert Einstein or Steve Jobs benefited immensely from working in fields that were fertile with change, ripe for disruption, and full of hard-working builders, makers, managers, and workers.—
Mark Nevins,
Forbes,
24 Mar. 2025
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McNeese has grabbed a number of headlines this week—not just for its upset and Wade’s employment future, but also thanks to the team’s student manager, Amir Khan, who went viral on social media and is now signing NIL deals.—
Eben Novy-Williams,
Sportico.com,
22 Mar. 2025
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Nets head coach Jordi Fernandez, attempting to play peacemaker, wound up getting shoved into the stands.—
C.J. Holmes,
New York Daily News,
21 Mar. 2025
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The president's goal of being a global peacemaker, however, is facing new tests in the Middle East.—
Carlo Versano,
Newsweek,
18 Mar. 2025
Cite this Entry
“Comprador.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/comprador. Accessed 6 Apr. 2025.
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