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Originally appearing in Volume V06, Page 813 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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COMPRADOR (a Portuguese word used in the East, derived from the
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Lat. comparare, to procure)
, originally a native servant in
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European households in the East, but now the name given to the native managers in European business houses in
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China, and also to native contractors supplying
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ships in the Philippines and elsewhere in the East .

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