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fixer
[ fik-ser ]
noun
- a person or thing that fixes, sets, adjusts, or repairs.
- Informal.
- a person who arranges matters in advance, or acts as a liaison:
The film crew hired a fixer for the foreign location shoot.
- 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.
- Informal. fixer-upper ( def 2 ).
- Photography. fixative ( def 3 ).
- Slang. a person who sells narcotics to addicts.
fixer
/ ˈfɪksə /
noun
- a person or thing that fixes
- 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
- slang.a person who makes arrangements, esp by underhand or illegal means
Example Sentences
They are disrupters, fixers, doers, iconoclasts, problem solvers—people who in a year of crisis have leaped into the fray.
It’s to his publicist, Robyn, a stone-cold, devilishly creative fixer played by Anna Paquin.
Instead of pushing Ukraine to probe the Bidens, Giuliani launched a renegade investigation of his own, relying on a cast of sources and fixers in Kyiv to help him gather information on the Bidens.
Like Biden, Klain is a consummate fixer, with Georgetown and Harvard Law School degrees thrown in for good measure.
His fixer, who Barfi said was affiliated with the Islamist Tawhid brigade, was set free 15 days later.
She asked if I had heard anything about the fixer, X. I had not.
A fine fixer, I had heard from correspondents who knew him, but there had been a problem recently.
He said that he had secured the fixer, ‘X,’ through a fellow Western journalist, and not by writing to 30 Syrians via Facebook.
Sometimes he had to call in a “fixer” to manufacture evidence, that the far-off ends of justice might not be defeated.
One of the best illustrations of how a town's officials sell themselves is embodied in the vile character known as "the fixer."
It was once my duty to run a race with a "fixer," and try to get the ear of a mayor of a town before he did.
I've had 'Silk' Humphreys, the best fixer in the business, working on him all day, and he'll be neutral before night.
By using such a fixer, the value of the resulting manure would be much enhanced.
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