powerbroker

pow·er·bro·ker

[pou-er-broh-ker]
noun
a person who wields great political, governmental, or financial power.

Origin:
1960–65, Americanism; power + broker

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powerbroker

noun
a person who is important by virtue of the people or votes they control; "a power broker who does you a favor will expect you to return it" [syn: power broker
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Powerbroker is always a great word to know.
So is interrobang. Does it mean:
a chattering or flighty, light-headed person.
a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
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