variants
or compradore
as in middleman
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Recent Examples of comprador
Running from March 28 to April 4, the event opened during Shanghai Fashion Week at the former residence of the comprador He Dong.
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Gemma A. Williams, Forbes.com, 5 Apr. 2025
His grandfather was a comprador, or business intermediary, for Jardine Matheson, the British trading house, in its dealings between China and colonial Hong Kong.
—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
Gemma A. Williams, Forbes.com, 5 Apr. 2025
His grandfather was a comprador, or business intermediary, for Jardine Matheson, the British trading house, in its dealings between China and colonial Hong Kong.
—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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Bill Ayers, a key member of the Weather Underground, recalled that Kennedy acted as middleman between the Brotherhood of Eternal Love and the Weather.—
Susannah Cahalan,
Rolling Stone,
17 Apr. 2025
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For starters, it’s been around since 2004 and has historically operated as a middleman between buyers and third-party sellers (think: eBay with way more fake Birkins).—
Francesca Krempa,
StyleCaster,
10 Apr. 2025
Noun
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And by having a direct relationships instead of dealing with intermediaries, Capital One can create more value for merchants, small businesses, and consumers.—
Jeff Marks,
CNBC,
21 Apr. 2025
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The administration is now engaged in talks with its Iranian counterparts — at times, indirectly via intermediaries and, at others, directly, with Trump envoy Steve Witkoff taking the lead in lengthy discussions with the Islamic Republic’s foreign minister, Abbas Araghchi.—
The Editors,
National Review,
17 Apr. 2025
Noun
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While the simple definition of recession has been two consecutive quarters of GDP decline, the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) has historically been the final arbiter of dating the business cycle.—
Bill Stone,
Forbes.com,
27 Apr. 2025
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All of this raises critics’ doubts that Kennedy could be anything like a fair and knowledgeable arbiter of the roots of autism—much less that an HHS under his direction could determine those roots in the next five months.—
Jeffrey Kluger,
Time,
18 Apr. 2025
Noun
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Negotiations for a new contract dragged on, with the SBA asking for an outside arbitrator to step in.—
Josephine Stratman,
New York Daily News,
15 Apr. 2025
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Meta won a legal victory on Wednesday against a former employee who published an explosive, tell-all memoir, as an arbitrator temporarily prohibited the author from promoting or further distributing copies.—
Mike Isaac,
New York Times,
17 Mar. 2025
Noun
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According to a statement, the London Museum’s finds liaison officer examines around 5,000 objects each year and records 700 of them, acquiring a small number of objects for the museum’s permanent collection.—
Sean Kingsley,
Smithsonian Magazine,
7 Apr. 2025
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Jeanette Rodriguez, who serves as a liaison between local law enforcement and the Venezuelan migrant community in Aurora, said Tren de Aragua members don't flaunt obvious signs of gang membership.—
Lilia Luciano,
CBS News,
7 Apr. 2025
Noun
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The student played a leading role in last year’s campus protests about the rising death toll in Gaza in Israel’s war against Hamas and the university’s investment ties to Israel, acting as a mediator between Columbia administrators and student protesters.—
Molly Crane-Newman,
New York Daily News,
24 Apr. 2025
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Hermosillo works out of the agency’s Los Angeles office in Glendale, staffed by five mediators and a supervisor.—
Los Angeles Times,
Chicago Tribune,
22 Apr. 2025
Noun
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During her tenure as manager of the IDFA Bertha Fund (formerly known as the Jan Vrijman Fund), the fund has supported 500 documentary projects and film organizations around the world.—
Matthew Carey,
Deadline,
29 Apr. 2025
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Right from the start of his nine-year tenure as Manchester City manager — from awkward beginnings with Bacary Sagna and Gael Clichy, to the seamless rotations of Rico Lewis — Pep Guardiola has consistently asked one, or both, of his full-backs to step into midfield with his team on the ball.—
Thom Harris,
New York Times,
29 Apr. 2025
Noun
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But in the speech Trump skipped over this move entirely, choosing instead to mention a conciliatory new letter Zelensky had sent him and portraying himself as a would-be peacemaker.—
Susan B. Glasser,
The New Yorker,
5 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
Cite this Entry
“Comprador.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/comprador. Accessed 5 May. 2025.
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