macher

British  

/ ˈmɑxər /

noun

1. an important or influential person: often used ironically

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Etymology

Origin of macher

Yiddish, from German, literally: doer

Example Sentences

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

Give us a sense of, you’ve already said, at the end of day, he’s kind of macher, like he just knows people and he connects people, but what did you learn?

From Slate • Apr. 19, 2017