wire-puller

1. 1.

   one who uses secret influence (i.e. pulls wires or strings) for his own ends

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Questions about wire-puller

What does wire-puller mean?

wire-puller means "one who uses secret influence (i.e. pulls wires or strings) for his own ends".

How many syllables are in wire-puller?

wire-puller has 4 syllables: wi-re--pul-ler. The stress falls on "re-".

Is wire-puller a common word?

wire-puller 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.