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power broker

noun

Etymology

From power + broker.

  1. derived from *bʰruHg-✻
  2. derived from *brūkiz✻
  3. derived from *brūkī✻
  4. derived from *brokere✻
  5. derived from brocour
  6. inherited from broker
  7. compounded as power broker — “power + broker”

Definitions

  1. A person or group having the ability to influence important decisions, especially in…

    A person or group having the ability to influence important decisions, especially in public policy, politics, and business.

    • In France, a near-revolution by students and workers came close to toppling Charles de Gaulle in May; its economic aftermath in November almost certainly discredited forever Gaullism's vaunted role as the power broker of Europe.
    • Gen Ali Murtopo—vice chairman of Indonesia's Supreme Advisory Council, former information minister, a major power broker in and out of the army—declared after a meeting with the president that the killings were justified.
    • The Qatar government, which runs the QIA, will become a major power-broker in determining the future of the London exchange.

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