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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: someone who intervenes with authorities for a person in trouble (usually using underhand or illegal methods for a fee) [syn: fixer, influence peddler]
2: a chemical compound that sets or fixes something (as a dye or a photographic image) [syn: fixing agent, fixer]
3: a skilled worker who mends or repairs things [syn: mender, repairer, fixer]
4: synthetic narcotic drug similar to morphine but less habit- forming; used in narcotic detoxification and maintenance of heroin addiction [syn: methadone, methadone hydrochloride, methadon, dolophine hydrochloride, fixer, synthetic heroin]

Merriam Webster's

noun Date: 1601 one that fixes: as a. a person who intervenes to enable someone to circumvent the law or obtain a political favor b. a person who adjusts matters or disputes by negotiation c. sodium thiosulfate; also a solution of sodium thiosulfate

Oxford Reference Dictionary

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.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(fixers) If someone is a fixer, he or she is the sort of person who solves problems and gets things done. (JOURNALISM) John Wakeham seems certain to become the fixer the Prime Minister will need at election time. N-COUNT

Moby Thesaurus

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