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power broker en · NOUN

Etymology

From power + broker.

Meanings

1. A person or group having the ability to influence important decisions, especially in public policy, politics, and business.
   • 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. 1988, Lewis B. Ware et al., Low-Intensity Conflict in the Third World,, Air Univ. Press, →ISBN, page 139:
   • The Qatar government, which runs the QIA, will become a major power-broker in determining the future of the London exchange. 2007 September 16, Louise Armitstead, “Qataris to seal bid for Nasdaq’s LSE stake”, in The Sunday Times, UK:
   • 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. 1969 January 3, “Men of the Year”, in Time:

Forms

Relateds

power behind the throne

Translations (12)

fi harmaa eminenssi (person having the ability to influence important decisions — see also éminence grise) · ru се́рый кардина́л (person having the ability to influence important decisions — see also éminence grise) · cs šedá eminence (person having the ability to influence important decisions — see also éminence grise) · de graue Eminenz (person having the ability to influence important decisions — see also éminence grise) · fr éminence grise (person having the ability to influence important decisions — see also éminence grise) · cmn 權力經紀人 /权力经纪人 (person having the ability to influence important decisions — see also éminence grise) · it eminenza grigia (person having the ability to influence important decisions — see also éminence grise) · ja 黒幕 (person having the ability to influence important decisions — see also éminence grise) · ka რუხი კარდინალი (person having the ability to influence important decisions — see also éminence grise) · ru влия́тельная фигу́ра (person having the ability to influence important decisions — see also éminence grise) · ro eminență cenușie (person having the ability to influence important decisions — see also éminence grise) · sh siva eminencija (person having the ability to influence important decisions — see also éminence grise)