power broker Meaning of "power broker"

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Definition(s):

  • (n) a person who is important by virtue of the people or votes they control

Usage(s):

  1. TechCrunch took off, and he soon found himself an accidental power broker.
  2. He wriggles in his seat at the suggestion that this makes him a power broker, pointing, with reason, to the achievements of the company's CEO, Rose Marie Bravo.
  3. How the firebrand Shi ite cleric became a major power broker in the new Iraq.
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