fixernoun [ C ]
uk/ˈfɪk.sər/us/ˈfɪk.sɚ/informalsomeone who is skilled at arranging for things to happen, especially dishonestly
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Managing and organizing
- act
- administer
- administration
- bureaucracy
- bureaucratic
- campaign
- head sth up
- in hand idiom
- kaizen
- manage
- management
- mind the store idiom
- run the show idiom
- running
- shakedown
- square
- square sth/sb away
- stage
- stage-manage
- stewardship
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Examples from literature
- He was the world's champion fixer.
- Only the fixer remained silent.
- Sometimes he had to call in a "fixer" to manufacture evidence, that the far-off ends of justice might not be defeated.
- The constable searched all night, and the fixer remained with him as long as he could keep pace with the officer.
- The fixer entered hurriedly, looking sharply around the almost vacant room, he whispered with the boss.