comprador
or com·pra·dore
(formerly in China) a local agent or factotum, as of a foreign business house.
Origin of comprador
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How to use comprador in a sentence
She was not long out from England, and a comprador order was as yet an unnatural phenomenon to her.
Intimate China | Mrs. Archibald LittleThe comprador provides stores, and all the necessary provisions for the ship, while she remains in port.
Embassy to the Eastern Courts of Cochin-China, Siam, and Muscat | Edmund RobertsIn the afternoon, Captain Gillespie came off to the ship again, with a gang of coolies under a native comprador.
Afloat at Last | John Conroy HutchesonThe comprador sent word aboard at four bells, he couldnt hold his sampan men much longer.
Cursed | George Allan EnglandAt the head of the whole household is the comprador, who is a kind of major-domo.
A Woman's Journey Round the World | Ida Pfeiffer
British Dictionary definitions for comprador
compradore
/ (ˌkɒmprəˈdɔː) /
(formerly in China and some other Asian countries) a native agent of a foreign enterprise
Origin of comprador
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