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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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The best cocktail dresses are the middlemen of the formalwear world.—
Elly Leavitt,
Vogue,
31 July 2025
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The workaround includes using Southeast Asian countries and secondary suppliers to funnel in high-end hardware, showing how U.S. controls may be generating inefficiency and profits for middlemen, rather than stopping China’s AI ambitions.—
Sharon Goldman,
Fortune,
24 July 2025
Noun
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The shift is subtle but seismic: AI bots and agents are intermediaries, sometimes gatekeepers, determining what information is surfaced.—
Adrien Menard,
Forbes.com,
29 July 2025
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The programs initiated in 2022 marked the first time grassroots organizations could apply for federal community violence prevention funding directly, without going through law enforcement or state intermediaries, according to three former DOJ officials.—
Bianca Flowers,
USA Today,
29 July 2025
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As a founding editor of the leading left-wing arts journal during the Popular Front, the New Masses, Gold became the cultural arbiter of literary taste for the Communist Party USA (CPUSA), pugnaciously denouncing both high modernism and middlebrow literature alike.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
23 July 2025
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Given the monitoring of mining’s opponents highlighted in the records, experts raised questions about authorities’ role: Is the government there to support industrial development, protect civil liberties or act as an unbiased arbiter?—
Mark Olalde,
ProPublica,
23 July 2025
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The parties have another 30 days to attempt to find an arbitrator who meets both of their specifications, KERA News reported.—
Lillie Davidson,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
25 July 2025
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An arbitrator will now determine whether Wilkins is entitled to his $35 million.—
Kurt Badenhausen,
Sportico.com,
25 July 2025
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She was also tapped as a liaison with the federal monitor tracking violence and use of force in the jails.—
Graham Rayman,
New York Daily News,
11 July 2025
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In the era of Babygirl and a flurry of other age-gap romance movies centering midlife women and younger men, Pretty Thing spins the trope on its head, exploring the dark side of these liaisons.—
Mara Santilli,
Flow Space,
4 July 2025
Noun
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If the two primary belligerents—Russia and Ukraine—are unwilling to stop fighting, and if both remain wary of postwar cease-fire security guarantees, China will not succeed as a third-party mediator.—
Da Wei,
Foreign Affairs,
29 July 2025
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It will be birthed by educators and engineers, by mothers and mediators, by those brave enough to imagine a future beyond vengeance.—
Margaux Chetrit,
Sun Sentinel,
23 July 2025
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After Dončić’s shocking trade from the Dallas Mavericks to the Los Angeles Lakers, the Mavericks’ general manager, Nico Harrison, suggested the move was necessary because Dončić was bad at defense.—
Louisa Thomas,
New Yorker,
3 Aug. 2025
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Early in my career, as a new manager, my supervisor taught me invaluable lessons through coaching.—
Julie Kratz,
Forbes.com,
3 Aug. 2025
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Harry Brook was the unlikely peacemaker coming between them.—
Paul Newman,
New York Times,
1 Aug. 2025
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As the quarrel escalated, the attacker snatched the bat from the man who bumped into him and bashed the peacemaker with it multiple times about 12:50 a.m. Friday.—
Rocco Parascandola,
New York Daily News,
30 July 2025
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“Comprador.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/comprador. Accessed 6 Aug. 2025.
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