tolkachn.

/ˈtəʊlkatʃ/

Forms: Plural tolkachi.

Etymology: Russian, < tolkat′ to push or jostle.

Now historical.

In the U.S.S.R.: a person who negotiated difficulties or arranged things, a ‘fixer’.

ΘΚΠ

the world > action or operation > advantage > usefulness > use (made of things) > instrumentality > [noun] > intermediate agency > intermediate means > person as

dealerc1000

meanc1384

mediatorc1390

moyen1455

intermediator1522

broker1530

middlera1533

intercessor1554

mercury1602

intermedial1605

transactor1611

interdealer1613

intermeddler1630

intercommuner1638

middleman1648

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inter-agent1728

intermediary1791

in-between1815

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tolkach1955

1955 H. Hodgkinson Doubletalk 129 Tolkach (from tolkat, to push or jostle), a ‘fixer’; the man who knows a man; the man who can get it for you wholesale; who has blat.

1957 J. S. Berliner Factory & Manager in U.S.S.R. xii. 215 The key figure in financing all these operations of the tolkachi is the accountant.

1963 Economist 29 June 1390/2 Plant directors..buy..supplies illegally from each other, through tolkachi or spivs.

1977 Western Political Q. XXX. 217 The premier practitioner of blat is the tolkach. He is the plant's representative who travels the country searching for needed supplies or unsnarling bureaucratic bottlenecks.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1986; most recently modified version published online September 2019).

单词	tolkach
释义	tolkachn. /ˈtəʊlkatʃ/ Forms: Plural tolkachi. Etymology: Russian, < tolkat′ to push or jostle. Now historical. In the U.S.S.R.: a person who negotiated difficulties or arranged things, a ‘fixer’. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > advantage > usefulness > use (made of things) > instrumentality > [noun] > intermediate agency > intermediate means > person as dealerc1000 meanc1384 mediatorc1390 moyen1455 intermediator1522 broker1530 middlera1533 intercessor1554 mercury1602 intermedial1605 transactor1611 interdealer1613 intermeddler1630 intercommuner1638 middleman1648 second hand1655 inter-agent1728 intermediary1791 in-between1815 medium1817 intermediate1879 come-between1919 tolkach1955 1955 H. Hodgkinson Doubletalk 129 Tolkach (from tolkat, to push or jostle), a ‘fixer’; the man who knows a man; the man who can get it for you wholesale; who has blat. 1957 J. S. Berliner Factory & Manager in U.S.S.R. xii. 215 The key figure in financing all these operations of the tolkachi is the accountant. 1963 Economist 29 June 1390/2 Plant directors..buy..supplies illegally from each other, through tolkachi or spivs. 1977 Western Political Q. XXX. 217 The premier practitioner of blat is the tolkach. He is the plant's representative who travels the country searching for needed supplies or unsnarling bureaucratic bottlenecks. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1986; most recently modified version published online September 2019). < n.1955
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