comprador
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9.9
- noun
- /kəmˈprɑːdɔr/
- Offensive
- The businessman appointed a local comprador to help navigate the complex market regulations and connect with foreign investors.
- comprador bourgeoisie
- comprador elites
- comprador class
Examples
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Now Indian expansionism has taken the political force that represents the comprador capitalist class, which is in favor of India, and has constructed the puppet government as the tool of fulfilling its interests.
Blog text (19) -
Second, Hong Kong's British and comprador political elites, unlike their traditional Chinese counterparts, did not use their advantageous positions to extract from the populace the last drop of potential revenue.
Academic text (1990) -
The British attempted to treat the Cherokee as a single nation in order to create efficient bureaucratic procedures and therefore also encouraged the emergence of a comprador bourgeoisie.
Academic text (2001) -
The adjustment program has been very favorable to "the comprador class," embracing a wide variety of occupations—from local agents of foreign businesses, partners, and consultants to such businesses as hotel accommodation.
Academic text (1995) -
As it has done in housing and education, the ruling elite and the comprador bourgeoisie avoided the degradation suffered by average and poor Egyptians in the medical area by creating their own exclusive clinics and hospitals.
Academic text (1992) -
In nearly 100 years of domination, Western imperialism shaped Egypt to suit its own needs, turning the country into a plantation for Western industry and its landed upper class into compradors with a stake in the extroverted economy.
Academic text (1992) -
As Kanienkehaka scholar Taiaiake Alfred notes, Canada is engaged in continued colonization of Indigenous peoples through the creation and promotion of the "aboriginal," a cooperative comprador class.
Academic text (2009) -
We have passed the view that says even now, there is a national comprador capitalist class, a bureaucratic capitalist class, and a feudal class, with Indian expansionism on one side and the Nepalese people on the other side, and there is a principal contradiction between them.
Blog text (19) -
However, the Nasser regime was not popular with all the classes of Egyptians; the landed aristocracy and the comprador bourgeoisie, whose privileges were destroyed or reduced by the Nasser revolution, were naturally enemies of the regime and worked against it.
Academic text (1992) -
In the 1990s, however, the free-trade agenda of the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) minimized distinctions between comprador elites tied to a traditional authoritarian military and an emerging business class with global connections.
Academic text (2002)
Synonyms
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7.5
A person who secretly gathers and gives information to another country
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8.5
A person who secretly helps others do something illegal
Surface Forms
Etymology
A helpful way to remember the political sense of comprador is to think of someone 'bought' by foreign powers, since the word comes from the verb comprar 'to buy'. That's why comprador can mean a local person who works for foreign interests instead of their own people.