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macher

British  
/ ˈmɑxər /

noun

  1. an important or influential person: often used ironically

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

Etymology

Origin of macher

Yiddish, from German, literally: doer

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His business partner at the agency is the operatically colorful macher Ari Emanuel, and they know more than almost anyone about how to use tabloid ink to boost a client or break a competitor.

From Seattle Times Mar. 2, 2019

At the risk of sounding like a complete ignoramus, I learned several new words and a term which is always fun: macher, shtetl, and work blue.

From Los Angeles Times Jan. 12, 2019

I wonder if the majority of the readers of the otherwise fascinating Dec. 2 front-page article “How Manafort and Stone helped spawn Trump’s white whale” know what a macher is.

From Washington Post Dec. 14, 2018

The middle-class kid from St. Louis was now a Los Angeles macher.

From New York Times Jul. 10, 2018

He stepped down at the standard bishop retirement age of 75 but remained a prolific fundraiser and jet-setting Vatican macher.

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