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PRONUNCIATION OF COMPRADORE

compradore  [ˌkɒmprəˈdɔː] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF COMPRADORE

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adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Compradore 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 COMPRADORE 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.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH COMPRADORE


adaw
əˈdɔː
adore
əˈdɔː
backdoor
ˌbækˈdɔː
bandore
bænˈdɔː
campeador
ˌkæmpɪəˈdɔː
comprador
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 COMPRADORE

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

WORDS THAT END LIKE COMPRADORE

air commodore
avvogadore
battledore
before
commodore
convenience store
core
dumbledore
encore
explore
hardcore
moidore
Moore
more
ochidore
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pandore
score
stevedore
windore

Synonyms and antonyms of compradore in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «compradore» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF COMPRADORE

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

Translator English - Chinese

买办
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

compradora
570 millions of speakers

English

compradore
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

compradore
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

compradore
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

компрадорской
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

compradora
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

compradore
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

compradore
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Compradore
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Kompradoren
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

compradore
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

compradore
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Compradore
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

compradore
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

தரகர்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

कॉनरोडोर
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

komprador
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

compradora
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

compradore
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

компрадорської
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

compradore
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

compradore
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

compradore
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

compradore
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

compradore
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of compradore

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «COMPRADORE»

The term «compradore» is used very little and occupies the 155.080 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «COMPRADORE» OVER TIME

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

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «COMPRADORE»

Discover the use of compradore in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to compradore and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Finance & Commerce Year Book
Section Three— 6 AKD MERCHANTS* REGISTER It can be briefly stated that the compradore is the go-between, through whom the foreign office and the native dealer are brousbt together. Foreign traders have never been able to adopt the ...
2
Fur Trade Review
Because of this situation the compradore exists in all for— eign firms in China. A Native Credit Man Briefly, the compradore is the Chinese mana— ger and credit man of the firm with which he is connected and the guarantor of all native ...
3
Heritage F.U.N. US Coin Auction #1110
From The Compradore Collections. (Total: 6 coins) (#4080) 621 1968-S MS67 PCGS. Immensely lustrous with ample canary-gold patina over otherwise nickel- white surfaces. Pleasingly detailed on the obverse, though the reverse shows more ...
Heritage Numismatic Auction, Inc.
4
Making Capitalism Without Capitalists: Class Formation and ...
This is a useful term if we can detach it from the value judgements placed on it by neo-Marxists who despise the 'compradore bourgeoisie' of Third World countries, who, they argue, are responsible for neo-colonialism and the 'development of ...
Gil Eyal, Iván Szelényi, Ivan Szelenyi, 2000
5
The Alienated Academy: Culture and Politics in Republican ...
The rich merchants, as members of the compradore bourgeoisie, on the other hand, inevitably sought to defend their class interest by compromising that of their nation.110 The dichotomy of "national" versus "compradore" bourgeoisie thus was ...
Wen-Hsin Yeh, 2000
6
Foreign Devils in the Flowery Kingdom
Every activity of the hong was divided between “taipan pidgin” and “compradore pidgin.” For example it was the taipan's business to pay for the English- language stationery and forms and the compradore's business to pay for ...
Carl Crow, 2007
7
Vietnam's Economic Policy Since 1975
"speculators and economic monopolists [in this case, the "compradore capitalists" ] who are causing disturbances to the market . . . will be arrested . . . , [and] their property may be confiscated in whole or in part". Later on, in July 1976, in a ...
Nhan Tri Vo, 1990
8
Scholar, Banker, Gentleman Soldier: The Reminiscences of Dr. ...
European banks had at first employed Chinese compradores to deal with Chinese business. The compradore introduced Chinese customers to the bank for facilities and was remunerated by a commision or a percentage of the interest earned ...
Pheng Geck Yap, 1982
9
Commonwealth Caribbean Business Law
defendants' Hong Kong bank, managed by a Chinese official styled a ' compradore', with the aid of two Chinese cashiers and an assistant, also officials of this bank and in its employ. The powers, duties, and obligations of the compradore are ...
Rajendra Ramlogan, Natalie Persadie, 2012
10
Noble House
“But you're a director and you're the eldest son of Noble House Chen so you'll be next compradore.” By historic custom the compradore was a Chinese or Eurasian businessman who acted as the exclusive intermediary between the European ...
James Clavell, 2009

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «COMPRADORE»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term compradore is used in the context of the following news items.
1
Casalini tra capitalismo utopico e capitalismo reale
... nei limiti delle nostre forze, non daremo tregua ai vendipatria – un tempo, con Eduardo Galeano, avremmo parlato di borghesie 'compradore' ... «InformArezzo, May 15»
2
Last hurrah for working-class unity
White monopoly capital, he said, was “enabled by a black elite and compradore politicians”. From this May Day, he continued “we will launch ... «Independent Online, May 15»
3
Techno development
... Lanka's economic development, as well as marking a cusp in its politics — representing a victory of the old compradore mercantile interests. «nation.lk - The Nation Newspaper, Feb 15»
4
Latin America Confronts the Challenge of Globalization
These dictatorships served the local reactionary coalitions (latifundiary landlords, compradore bourgeoisies, and middle classes profiting from ... «Monthly Review, Dec 14»
5
Ted Grant - The Permanent Revolutionary. Chapter Eight: The …
... a progressive “industrial” bourgeoisie, whereas the Sri Lankan bourgeoisie was compradore! In the end, we did not succeed in getting the Sri ... «In Defense of Marxism, Oct 14»
6
Irak : la France a aussi ses ennemis intérieurs
... groupes toujours plus radicaux pour faire payer l'envahisseurs et leurs traître compradore. Rappelez vous de la guerre au Viet-nam, Pol-pot. «Le Figaro, Sep 14»
7
Popular Movements Toward Socialism: Their Unity and Diversity
It can even grease the slide of that bourgeoisie from its natural compradore behavior to a pro-national outlook. The fact remains that Chinese ... «Monthly Review, May 14»
8
Pioneer stories recounted
They also shot the Chinese compradore in the leg, the quartermaster, and also a Chinese, but happily they were not seriously injured. «Otago Daily Times, Jan 14»
9
Paranoid Nationalism Changes Hands in Turkey
For these same reasons, the AKP has been condemned repeatedly by secular nationalists as an "American puppet" or "capitalist compradore. «Al-Monitor, Jun 13»
10
What the Assad regime was and what it has become – Part Two
It was a compradore bourgeoisie at the service of imperialism. This explains the radical mood among the masses and their desire for social ... «In Defense of Marxism, Mar 13»

REFERENCE
« EDUCALINGO. Compradore [online]. Available <https://educalingo.com/en/dic-en/compradore>. May 2024 ».
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