influence peddler

1. 1.

   someone who intervenes with authorities for a person in trouble (usually using underhand or illegal methods for a fee)

   Synonymsfixer

   Broaderimportant person

Questions about influence peddler

What does influence peddler mean?

influence peddler means "someone who intervenes with authorities for a person in trouble (usually using underhand or illegal methods for a fee)".

What is another word for influence peddler?

Close synonyms include fixer. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is influence peddler a common word?

influence peddler is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.