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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | person representing an organization or person in business |
| Synonyms: | abettor, actor, advocate, ambassador, assignee, assistant, attorney, broker, commissioner, delegate, deputy, doer, emissary, envoy, executor, factor, factotum, functionary, go-between, handler, intermediary, lawyer, mediary, middleperson, minister, mover, negotiator, officer, operative, operator, principal, proctor, promoter, proxy, representative, salesperson, servant, steward, substitute, surrogate, ten percenter, worker |
| Main Entry: | arbitrator |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | settler of a dispute |
| Synonyms: | adjudicator, arbiter, fixer, go-between, holdout, judge, maven, mediator, middleperson, referee, umpire |
| Notes: | an arbitrator is appointed; an arbiter has no such authority but his/her opinion is valued arbitrators make a decision/judgment but mediators do not |
| Main Entry: | broker |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | financial expert |
| Synonyms: | agent, business person, dealer, entrepreneur, factor, financier, go-between, interagent, interceder, intercessor, intermediary, intermediate, mediator, merchant, middleperson, negotiator, stockbroker |
| Main Entry: | distributor |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | wholesaler |
| Synonyms: | dealer, jobber, merchandiser, middleperson, salesperson, trader |
| Main Entry: | negotiator |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | person who bargains, controls discussion |
| Synonyms: | adjudicator, ambassador, arbitrator, broker, delegate, diplomat, fixer, go-between, interagent, intermediary, intermedium, judge, mediator, middleperson, moderator |
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| Concept: | Agent. |
| Category: | 1. Simple voluntary action |
| Synonyms: |
-nouns
doer, actor, agent, performer, perpetrator, operator; executor, executrix; practitioner, worker, stager., bee, ant, working bee, termite, white ant; laboring oar, servant of all work, factotum., workman, artisan; craftsman, handicraftsman; mechanic, operative; working man; laboring man; demiurgus, hewers of wood and drawers of water, laborer, navvy; hand, man, day laborer, journeyman, charwoman, hack; mere tool; beast of burden, drudge, fag; lumper, roustabout., maker, artificer, artist, wright, manufacturer, architect, builder, mason, bricklayer, smith, forger, Vulcan; carpenter; ganger, platelayer; blacksmith, locksmith, sailmaker, wheelwright., machinist, mechanician, engineer., sempstress, semstress, seamstress; needlewoman, workwoman; tailor, cordwainer., minister (instrument); servant; representative (commissioner), (deputy) [more]., coworker, party to, participator in, particeps criminis, dramatis personae; personnel.
-phrases
quorum pars magna fui [Vergil]; faber est quisque fortunae suae.
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