power broker
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Noun
power broker (plural power brokers)
- A person or group having the ability to influence important decisions, especially in public policy, politics, and business.
- 1969 January 3, “Men of the Year”, in 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, page 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 September 16, Louise Armitstead, “Qataris to seal bid for Nasdaq’s LSE stake”, in 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
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