Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In parts of the United States acquired from Mexico, one who projects and manages a mercantile or similar enterprise, or takes a leading part in it, for his own profit and at his own risk, usually implying the possession and control of a concession or grant from government in the nature of a privilege or monopoly.
- noun More specifically, a contractor who engages with the Mexican government to introduce a body of foreign settlers. Also called
hobladore .
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Examples
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Given all the parodies of pornography that involve a pizza delivery guy, it's only natural that Jon Stewart would get some material out of presidential hopeful and former pizza empresario Herman Cain's sexual harassment allegations in the news this week.
Jon Stewart Mocks Herman Cain's Sexual Harassment Scandal (VIDEO) 2011
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Colocar a un empresario famoso, que tiene la buena fe de la mayoría de los sectores, obliga al sector privado a calmarse y a callarse la boca, porque ahora cuando critiquen los apagones no están criticando exclusivamente un funcionario cualquiera, sino que están criticando a don Celso Marranzini, una persona con una trayectoria envidiable que le hace merecer el respeto de muchos.
Global Voices in English » Dominican Republic: Solving the Issue of Power Outages 2009
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It was arranged that the empresario for the Plaza Mexico would buy the giant bull from Button for Hernando to fight.
Carlos The Impossible (Part 1) JTK Belle 2010
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All season long, he called on every empresario of every bullring large and small from Tijuana to Cozumel.
Carlos The Impossible (Part 2) JTK Belle 2010
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And so Hernando bought Carlos back from the empresario of the Plaza for two hundred pesos and a half bottle of Oaxacan mezcal.
Carlos The Impossible (Part 2) JTK Belle 2010
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The victim's father, circus empresario and former race car driver Ricardo Flores, says his daughter dropped off some girlfriends at 2: 35 a.m. then apparently returned to the casino.
Joran Van Der Sloot In Peru Murder Investigation, Is Prime Suspect 2010
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Exitoso como empresario, salvó las Olimpiadas, y como gobernador de Massachusetts bajó los impuestos y estimuló la economía.
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El jardín de los suplicios. (político Felipe González y empresario Jesús de Polanco difaman a quienes no están de su lado; España) (TT: The garden of torture) ...
An Open Letter to Jesus: My God Would Torture to Save Lives 2009
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El jardín de los suplicios. (político Felipe González y empresario Jesús de Polanco difaman a quienes no están de su lado; España) (TT: The garden of torture) ...
OpEdNews - Quicklink: Lawyer: Ex-U.S. Officials Must Face Torture Charges 2009
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You might recall that Pearlman, the corpulent boy-band empresario I profiled in Vanity Fair last fall, was accused of bilking hundreds of people out of at least $50 million in a scheme that lasted 15 years or more.
Big Poppa Goes to the Big House: Bryan Burrough Burrough, Bryan 2008
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