power broker

See also: powerbroker and power-broker

English

Alternative forms

• power-broker

Etymology

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Noun

power broker (plural power brokers)

1. A person or group having the ability to influence important decisions, especially in public policy, politics, and business.
   • 1969 Jan. 3, "Men of the Year," Time:

     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.

   • 1988, Lewis B. Ware et al., Low-Intensity Conflict in the Third World, Air Univ. Press, →ISBN, p. 139:

     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.

   • 2007 Sep. 16, Louise Armitstead, "Qataris to seal bid for Nasdaq’s LSE stake," The Sunday Times (UK):

     The Qatar government, which runs the QIA, will become a major power-broker in determining the future of the London exchange.

Translations

person having the ability to influence important decisions — see also éminence grise

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 權力經紀人／权力经纪人, 权力经纪人 (quánlì jīngjìrén)

• Czech: šedá eminence (cs) f
• Finnish: harmaa eminenssi (fi)
• French: éminence grise (fr)
• Georgian: რუხი კარდინალი (ruxi ḳardinali)
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• German: graue Eminenz f
• Italian: eminenza grigia f
• Japanese: 黒幕 (ja) (くろまく, kuromaku)
• Romanian: eminență cenușie (ro) f
• Russian: се́рый кардина́л (ru) m (séryj kardinál) (lit: grey cardinal), влия́тельная фигу́ра f (vlijátelʹnaja figúra)
• Serbo-Croatian: siva eminencija f

See also

• power behind the throne