comprador
noun
(formerly in China) a local agent or factotum, as of a foreign business house.
compradore
-
a variation of
comprador.
Example Sentences
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A younger man would do just as well as compradore, and here was the younger man at hand, waiting.
From Civilization Tales of the Orient by Ellen Newbold La Motte
The compradore is a very useful fellow, but, in nine cases out of ten, a great rogue, who scruples not to swell out his bill against the ship by various means the reverse of fair.
From Trade and Travel in the Far East or Recollections of twenty-one years passed in Java, Singapore, Australia and China. by G. F. Davidson
Withers always took charge of this end of the business, because of the opportunity it offered to get away from daily contact with his old compradore.
From Civilization Tales of the Orient by Ellen Newbold La Motte
The shroff was very fearful, but as he was to be compradore now, to do the work of a European, he could not show fear.
From Civilization Tales of the Orient by Ellen Newbold La Motte
Felt soles scuffed in the darkness, and through the door, his yellow face wearing a placid and lofty grin, entered Ah Pat, the compradore.
From Dragon's blood by Henry Milner Rideout
