Definition of comprador

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com·pra·dor also com·pra·dore    (kmpr-dôr) KEY 

NOUN:

1. An intermediary; a go-between.
2. A native-born agent in China and certain other Asian countries formerly employed by a foreign business to serve as a collaborator or intermediary in commercial transactions.

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ETYMOLOGY:
Portuguese, from Late Latin compartor, buyer, from Latin comparre, to buy : com-, com- + parre, to get; see per-¹ in Indo-European roots