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philanthropoid en · NOUN

Etymology

From philanthropy + -oid.

Meanings

1. (informal) An administrative employee at a philanthropic organisation.
   • I'm not playing the role of the hard-headed tycoon who thinks all philanthropoids are Socialists and all university professors are Communists. 1983, Rael Jean Isaac, Erich Isaac, The coercive utopians: social deception by America's power players, page 206:
   • The philanthropoid needs intelligence, imagination, flexibility, and a large streak of unselfishness. 1967, Warren Weaver, George Wells Beadle, U.S. philanthropic foundations:

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