单词 |
tolkach |
释义 |
‖ tolkach|ˈtolkatʃ| Pl. tolkachi. [Russ., f. tolkat′ to push or jostle.] In the U.S.S.R., a person who negotiates difficulties or arranges things, a ‘fixer’.
1955H. 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. 1957J. 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. 1963Economist 29 June 1390/2 Plant directors..buy..supplies illegally from each other, through tolkachi or spivs. 1977Western 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. |

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