fixer
Americannoun
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fixers
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a person or thing that fixes, sets, adjusts, or repairs.
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Informal.
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a person who arranges matters in advance, or acts as a liaison.
The film crew hired a fixer for the foreign location shoot.
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a person who neutralizes problems for another, as for an individual or organization whose reputation is threatened by past misdeeds or conflicts, often through bribery or influence.
The agent also worked as a fixer for several movie stars, keeping sex scandals and drug arrests out of the tabloids.
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Informal. fixer-upper.
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Photography. fixative.
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Slang. a person who sells narcotics to addicts.
noun
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a person or thing that fixes
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photog a solution containing one or more chemical compounds that is used, in fixing, to dissolve unexposed silver halides. It sometimes has an additive to stop the action of developer
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slang a person who makes arrangements, esp by underhand or illegal means
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A third man - the journalists' Togolese fixer Fred Vedomey - has also been detained.
From BBC ● Aug. 20, 2026
A panicked phone call to his agent in California brings a Mumbai fixer to George’s door.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 26, 2026
Hired as a Skyline security guard, Aaron is promoted to fixer, keeping himself and Skyline’s A-listers closeted by any means necessary.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 1, 2026
Edwards’s most effective attorney is the silver-tongued Camille Gravel, a longtime political fixer without a law degree.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 23, 2026
He was the Machiavelli of Ohio politics, the classic behind-the-scenes fixer, a shrewd and insightful judge of character or, at least, political opportunity.
From "Blink" by Malcolm Gladwell
The whole letter is Bezos’ grievance talking, laundered through one of his fixers.
From Slate ● Feb. 5, 2026
Others were open about their fees, saying a network of fixers would also get a cut.
From Barron's ● Oct. 14, 2025
Cue the fixers, including the bald, quiet muscle Igor, in Sean Baker’s “Anora.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 26, 2024
She showed me several homes that sent my heart fluttering, but then pointed out potential problems, like rot under a coated deck and the long wait for contractors for low-priced fixers.
From Salon ● Sep. 14, 2024
We cannot impress this too earnestly on fixers.
From Electric Bells and All About Them A Practical Book for Practical Men by S. R. Bottone
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