power broker

1. 1.

   a person who is important by virtue of the people or votes they control

   “a power broker who does you a favor will expect you to return it”

   Synonymspowerbroker

   Broaderimportant person

Questions about power broker

What does power broker mean?

power broker means "a person who is important by virtue of the people or votes they control".

What is another word for power broker?

Close synonyms include powerbroker. 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 power broker a common word?

power broker 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.