Definitions
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- noun literally A person who
buys andsells horses, especially one who makes such transactions in aclever orskillful manner. - noun figuratively, by extension One who is skillful in
transacting ornegotiating of any kind.
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Examples
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He was a better campaigner, communicator and horsetrader than anybody in a long, long time.
Bill Clinton Sends Fundraising Email Seeking "One Million" In "One Week" For Hillary 2009
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After an early career as a Kentucky horsetrader (in more senses than one), Sanders then advanced to leading light of the free-trade-and-invade-Mexico “Young America” movement (it got nowhere).
American Connections James Burke 2007
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After an early career as a Kentucky horsetrader (in more senses than one), Sanders then advanced to leading light of the free-trade-and-invade-Mexico “Young America” movement (it got nowhere).
American Connections James Burke 2007
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His name was Jonas Alderson, and be looked sufficiently like a horsetrader to be one.
The Financier 2004
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Now that he thought back on it, Kris 'frequent paeans of praise for the Queen's Own seemed less like those of a lover lauding his beloved, and more like a horsetrader trying to convince a reluctant buyer!
Arrow's Fall Lackey, Mercedes 1988
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Now that he thought back on it, Kris 'frequent paeans of praise for the Queen's Own seemed less like those of a lover lauding his beloved, and more like a horsetrader trying to convince a reluctant buyer!
Arrow's Fall Lackey, Mercedes 1988
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Casca could tell the man was a confirmed horsetrader.
The Eternal Mercenary Sadler, Barry 1980
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And I remember, on a time, long after the drift when we brought the barley into India, that I came down into India, a horsetrader, with many servants and a long caravan at my back, and that at that time they were worshiping Bodhisattra.
Chapter 21 1915
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His name was Jonas Alderson, and be looked sufficiently like a horsetrader to be one.
The Financier, a novel Theodore Dreiser 1908
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