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ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD COMPRADOR

From Portuguese: buyer, from Late Latin comparātor, from Latin comparāre to purchase, from parāre to prepare.
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PRONUNCIATION OF COMPRADOR

comprador  [ˌkɒmprəˈdɔː] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF COMPRADOR

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Comprador is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES COMPRADOR MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Comprador

A comprador or compradore is a native manager of European business houses in East and South East Asia, and, by extension, social groups that play broadly similar roles in other parts of the world. The term comprador, a Portuguese word that means buyer, derives from the Latin comparare, which means to procure. The original usage of the word in East Asia meant a native servant in European households in Guangzhou in southern China or the neighboring Portuguese colony at Macao who went to market to barter their employers' wares. The term then evolved to mean the native contract suppliers who worked for foreign companies in East Asia or the native managers of firms in East Asia. Compradors held important positions in southern China buying and selling tea, silk, cotton and yarn for foreign corporations and working in foreign-owned banks. Robert Hotung, a late nineteenth century compradore of the British owned trading conglomerate Jardine, Matheson & Co. was believed to be the richest man in Hong Kong by the age of 35.

Definition of comprador in the English dictionary

The definition of comprador in the dictionary is a native agent of a foreign enterprise.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH COMPRADOR


adaw
əˈdɔː
adore
əˈdɔː
backdoor
ˌbækˈdɔː
bandore
bænˈdɔː
campeador
ˌkæmpɪəˈdɔː
compradore
ˌkɒmprəˈdɔː
five-door
ˌfaɪvˈdɔː
Indore
ɪnˈdɔː
matadore
ˈmætəˈdɔː
mirador
ˌmɪrəˈdɔː
Mogador
ˌmɒɡəˈdɔː
outdoor
ˈaʊtˈdɔː
provedore
ˌprɒvɪˈdɔː
three-door
ˌθriːˈdɔː
two-door
ˌtuːˈdɔː

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE COMPRADOR

compounding
compradore
comprehend
comprehendible
comprehensibility
comprehensible
comprehensibleness
comprehensibly
comprehension
comprehensive
comprehensive school
comprehensively
comprehensiveness
comprehensivise
comprehensivize
compress
compressed
compressed air
compressedly
compressibility

WORDS THAT END LIKE COMPRADOR

ambassador
chador
Coast of Labrador
conquistador
Ecuador
El Cid Campeador
El Salvador
embassador
goodwill ambassador
Labrador
matador
Newfoundland and Labrador
parador
picador
rejoneador
roncador
Salvador
San Salvador
toreador

Synonyms and antonyms of comprador in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «comprador» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF COMPRADOR

Find out the translation of comprador to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of comprador from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «comprador» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

买办
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

compradora
570 millions of speakers

English

comprador
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

कंप्रडर
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

الكومبرادورية
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

компрадорской
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

compradora
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

বেনিয়ান
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

compradore
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Komprador
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

comprador
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

買弁
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

매판
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Komprador
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

người mại bản
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

தரகு
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

बनलेले
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

komprador
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

compradora
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

Comprador
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

компрадорської
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

Comprador
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

κομπραδόρικες
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

comprador
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

comprador
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

kompradorregime
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of comprador

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «COMPRADOR»

The term «comprador» is very widely used and occupies the 12.817 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «COMPRADOR» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «comprador» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «comprador» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about comprador

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «COMPRADOR»

Discover the use of comprador in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to comprador and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Comprador de Oraciones
Comprador. de. oraciones. Mañana tendré que irme y será mi tarde obscura Otra letra vana, vestida de luto Mas nunca vistiendo, luto de la duda, ¡Por ser ella rama! Partede mifruto Semilla, bastión y demi letra parte de aquello, que el alma,  ...
Florencio López Ríos
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El Comprador Inteligente
PLAN C — EL PLAN DEL COMPRADOR INTELIGENTE Plan C ha sido diseñado de manera sencilla y fácil de aprender. Se ajusta a tus necesidades y eso lo convierte en un plan hecho a la medida. Una vez que lo actives podrás: - Utilizar tu ...
Massiel Cardenas, Paul Cardenas, 2011
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Comprador
COMPRADOR-what's it about? Like Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged, this is about a singular man, who has earned the right to answer to no one but himself...and the beliefs he stands for.
David R. Cudlip, Kimberly Martin, 2011
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Chinese Business Enterprise
*Source: The Comprador in Nineteenth-Century China: Bridge between East and West (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press. 1970), pp. 44-63 Although the comprador's rise started in 1842, his role as a commercial middleman ...
Rajeswary Ampalavanar Brown, 1996
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Bienes Raíces: Introducción a la Profesión: Introduccion a ...
El párrafo en [19] manifiesta las condiciones en que el comprador puede librarse de sus obligaciones bajo este contrato y recuperar su depósito por completo. Empieza con dirigirse a la cuestión de destrucción de la propiedad entre la firma  ...
Nora Gutiérrez-Olmos, Charles J. Jacobus, 2009
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Edge of Empires: Chinese Elites and British Colonials in ...
Wong Kam Fuk became comprador of the Hongkong and Kowloon Wharf and Godown, the managing director of a Chinese steamship company, and co-owner of a cotton-yarn business.75 Chau Siu-ki founded several important insurance ...
John M. CARROLL, John M Carroll, 2009
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Special Agents Series
foreigner this system seems extremely complicated and intricate. While this is true in one sense, any complication there may be does not affect the foreign firm at all. The position of a comprador in a foreign house in China is rather difficult of  ...
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Special Agents Series
The position of a comprador in a foreign house in China is rather difficult of definition, depending as it does largely on the attitude □which the management or the firm takes toward the comprador and the extent to which he is used. In general ...
United States. Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce, 1918
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Miscellaneous series
The writer is informed that, in some exceptional cases, the bank, by special agreement with its comprador, pays the salaries of the comprador's staff. The general practice in China is, however, for the comprador to pay his staff from his own ...
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Commercial Handbook of China ...
The writer is informed that, in some exceptional cases, the bank, by special agreement with its comprador, pays the salaries of the comprador's staff. The general practice in China is, however, for the comprador to pay his staff from his own ...
United States. Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce, Julean Herbert Arnold, 1920

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «COMPRADOR»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term comprador is used in the context of the following news items.
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Tres princesas africanas
Ayer mismo, Dangote sonaba como posible comprador del Arsenal. En ese oneroso ramillete despuntan tres mujeres: la mencionada ... «El Mundo, Jul 15»
2
Explaining Yanis Varoufakis, Greece's Anti-Austerity 'Rock Star'
But it had been granted a modicum of home rule, and what we used to call the "comprador bourgeoisie"—the pliant agents of the ... «VICE, Jul 15»
3
People In Greece Say No To creditors: Democracy With Dignity Wins
Shameless comprador political leaders in countries will not learn; but people and their real leaders in countries will learn: Mobilize the people, ... «CounterCurrents.org, Jul 15»
4
Degüellan a un hombre para robarle su minibús
Un hombre que vendía un minibús en la feria 16 de Julio de El Alto fue degollado por un supuesto comprador que lo llevó con engaños hasta ... «La Razón, Jul 15»
5
ALFA y Harbour Energy solicitan aplazamiento de la reunión de …
Bajo los términos del acuerdo de arreglo firmado por Harbour, ALFA, el Comprador y la Compañía con respecto al Arreglo, el Comprador tiene ... «PR Newswire, Jul 15»
6
Siete condenados a penas de hasta 13 años por corrupción en …
De acuerdo con el reporte oficial, uno de los funcionarios, comprador de CUPET, "benefició a la firma DFS por los regalos que su ... «Diario de Cuba, Jul 15»
7
Los supermercados de Lidl se 'españolizan' para captar clientes
"Somos el primer comprador de fruta y verdura de España. El año pasado compramos un millón de toneladas", asegura Ferran Figueras. «EL PAÍS, Jul 15»
8
Imperialism and the Transformation of Values into Prices
... unresolved land question creating an oversupply of labor; (4) repressive comprador governments, who benefit from and accept the neoliberal ... «Monthly Review, Jul 15»
9
The New Imperialism of Globalized Monopoly-Finance Capital
... the rise of comprador elements allied with foreign capital in underdeveloped countries; and (9) global revolutionary waves in the periphery. «Monthly Review, Jul 15»
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Commentary: USDA celebrates Homeownership Month
Visit their website at http://www.nvrural.org/es/servicios-para-el-comprador-de-viviendas/futuros-compradores-de-viviendas to learn more. «Elko Daily Free Press, Jun 15»

REFERENCE
« EDUCALINGO. Comprador [online]. Available <https://educalingo.com/en/dic-en/comprador>. Apr 2024 ».
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