philanthropoid

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noun

An administrative employee at a philanthropic organisation.

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Meanings

nounphilanthropoid (plural philanthropoids)

plural philanthropoids

  1. informalAn administrative employee at a philanthropic organisation.

    The philanthropoid needs intelligence, imagination, flexibility, and a large streak of unselfishness.

    1967, Warren Weaver, George Wells Beadle, U.S. philanthropic foundations
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    I'm not playing the role of the hard-headed tycoon who thinks all philanthropoids are Socialists and all university professors are Communists.

    1983, Rael Jean Isaac, Erich Isaac, The coercive utopians: social deception by America's power players, page 206

Origin

From philanthropy + -oid.

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