wire-puller
51ingroup — Synonyms and related words: Rasputin, Svengali, VIP, access, age group, bad influence, band, battalion, bevy, big wheel, body, brigade, bunch, bureaucracy, cabal, cadre, camarilla, camp, cast, cell, charmed circle, circle, clan, clique, closed… …
52kingmaker — Synonyms and related words: Machiavellian, Rasputin, Svengali, VIP, access, bad influence, behind the scenes operator, big wheel, court, eminence grise, finagler, five percenter, friend at court, gamesman, good influence, gray eminence,… …
53lobbyist — Synonyms and related words: Rasputin, Svengali, VIP, access, bad influence, big wheel, court, eminence grise, five percenter, friend at court, good influence, gray eminence, heavyweight, hidden hand, influence, influence peddler, influencer,… …
54logroller — Synonyms and related words: Machiavellian, behind the scenes operator, eminence grise, finagler, five percenter, fixer, four percenter, gamesman, gray eminence, influence peddler, kingmaker, machinator, operator, pork barrel politician, power… …
55machinator — Synonyms and related words: Benedict Arnold, Brutus, Judas, Judas Iscariot, Machiavellian, Quisling, archtraitor, behind the scenes operator, betrayer, calculator, cockatrice, coconspirator, conniver, conspirator, conspirer, counterplotter,… …
56manipulator — Synonyms and related words: Rasputin, Svengali, VIP, access, agent, bad influence, big wheel, calculator, conductor, court, driver, eminence grise, engineer, five percenter, friend at court, functionary, good influence, gray eminence, handler,… …
57open sesame — Synonyms and related words: Rasputin, Svengali, VIP, abracadabra, access, bad influence, big wheel, bottle opener, can opener, church key, clavis, conjuration, corkscrew, countersign, court, eminence grise, five percenter, friend at court, good… …
58plotter — Synonyms and related words: Benedict Arnold, Brutus, Judas, Judas Iscariot, Machiavellian, Quisling, archtraitor, betrayer, cockatrice, coconspirator, conniver, conspirator, conspirer, counterplotter, double agent, double crosser, double dealer,… …
59powers that be — Synonyms and related words: John Bull, Rasputin, Svengali, Uncle Sam, VIP, Washington, Whitehall, access, bad influence, big wheel, bureaucracy, court, directorate, eminence grise, five percenter, friend at court, good influence, gray eminence,… …
60pressure group — Synonyms and related words: Black Power, Italian vote, Jewish vote, Polish Power, Rasputin, Svengali, VIP, White Power, access, bad influence, big wheel, black vote, breakaway group, camp, caucus, court, division, eminence grise, ethnic group,… …
