horsetrader
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See also: horse-trader and horse trader
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horsetrader (plural horsetraders)
- (literally) A person who buys and sells horses, especially one who makes such transactions in a clever or skillful manner.
- (figuratively, by extension) One who is skillful in transacting or negotiating of any kind.
- 1937 February 22, “Judiciary: Visibility Poor”, in Time:
- The three subordinates on whom President Roosevelt depends to win his Senate victories are Majority Leader Joseph T. Robinson of Arkansas, the bull-voiced, heavy-fisted field commander; Pat Harrison of Mississippi, the shrewd committee and cloakroom horsetrader; and James F. Byrnes of South Carolina.
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a person who buys and sells horses
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