comprador

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: com=pra=dor

CIDE DICTIONARY

comprador, n. [Pg., a buyer.].

 A kind of steward or agent.  S. W. Williams  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

comprador, n. (also compradore)
1 hist. a Chinese business agent of a foreign company.
2 an agent of a foreign power.

Etymology

Port. comprador buyer f. LL comparator f. L comparare purchase

ROGET THESAURUS

comprador

Provision

N provision, supply, grist, grist for the mill, subvention, resources, groceries, grocery, providing, purveyance, reinforcement, reenforcement, commissariat, provender, ensilage, viaticum, caterer, purveyor, commissary, quartermaster, manciple, feeder, batman, victualer, grocer, comprador, restaurateur, jackal, pelican, sutler, grocery shop, grocery store.