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- noun Plural form of
comprador .
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Examples
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The CPC and its trade union accept that this is an objective reality and they do not as a consequence of this label one another as 'compradors', 'right-wingers' or 'sell-outs', as others in progressive countries are tempted to do.
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The CPC and its trade union accept that this is an objective reality and they do not as a consequence of this label one another as 'compradors', 'right-wingers' or 'sell-outs', as others in progressive countries are tempted to do.
CONTENTS 2006
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Most of the business between the natives and foreigners is carried on by means of middlemen, or "compradors," and these include both the commission merchants and the native bankers.
Commercial Geography A Book for High Schools, Commercial Courses, and Business Colleges 1895
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Privately, he had cordial relations with some of the “compradors,” and was delighted by the attention he got when he showed up in February at the Davos World Economic Forum.
The Return Daniel Treisman 2011
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Privately, he had cordial relations with some of the “compradors,” and was delighted by the attention he got when he showed up in February at the Davos World Economic Forum.
The Return Daniel Treisman 2011
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Privately, he had cordial relations with some of the “compradors,” and was delighted by the attention he got when he showed up in February at the Davos World Economic Forum.
The Return Daniel Treisman 2011
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Privately, he had cordial relations with some of the “compradors,” and was delighted by the attention he got when he showed up in February at the Davos World Economic Forum.
The Return Daniel Treisman 2011
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When the complex nexus of national interest, party-family ties, local power brokers and influence peddlers is antagonized, however, these intuitive insiders, the commercial compradors with local knowledge, are particularly vulnerable.
Strangers at Home Geremie R. Barm 2010
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Given the nationalist xenophobia of the landowners and the desire for more foreign investment by the compradors, there was another, deeper, political antagonism.
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Modern-day Canadian compradors serve as intermediary junior partners for corporate American giants especially as so much of Canada's economy is foreign owned or controlled - 28% of non-financial sectors with 20% by US companies in 2004.
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