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fixer
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun fixer has 4 senses
- fixer(n = noun.person) influence peddler - someone who intervenes with authorities for a person in trouble (usually using underhand or illegal methods for a fee); Array is a kind of important person, influential person, personage
- fixer(n = noun.substance) fixing agent - a chemical compound that sets or fixes something (as a dye or a photographic image); Array is a kind of chemical compound, compound
- fixer(n = noun.person) mender, repairer - a skilled worker who mends or repairs things; Array has particulars: darner, maintenance man, repairman, service man
- fixer(n = noun.artifact) dolophine hydrochloride, methadon, methadone, methadone hydrochloride, synthetic heroin - synthetic narcotic drug similar to morphine but less habit-forming; used in narcotic detoxification and maintenance of heroin addiction; Array is a kind of narcotic
has particulars: fixative, hypo, sodium thiosulfate, sodium thiosulphate
is a kind of skilled worker, skilled workman, trained worker
Derived form verb fix1
OXFORD DICTIONARY
fixer, n.
1 a person or thing that fixes.
2 Photog. a substance used for fixing a photographic image etc.
3 colloq. a person who makes arrangements, esp. of an illicit kind.
1 a person or thing that fixes.
2 Photog. a substance used for fixing a photographic image etc.
3 colloq. a person who makes arrangements, esp. of an illicit kind.
THESAURUS
fixer
cobbler, developer, doctor, five-percenter, fixing bath, four-percenter, hypo, influence peddler, little Miss Fixit, logroller, maintenance man, mechanic, mechanician, mender, power broker, processing solution, renovator, repairer, repairman, restorer, serviceman, short-stop, short-stop bath, sodium hyposulfite, sodium thiosulfate, soup, stop bath, tinker, trouble man, troubleshooter, wire-puller
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