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Italian
Etymology
From affare + -ista.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /af.faˈri.sta/
- Rhymes: -ista
- Hyphenation: af‧fa‧rì‧sta
Noun
affarista m or f by sense (masculine plural affaristi, feminine plural affariste)
- shrewd businessman
2020 September 17, Federico Rampini, “"Mi aggredì 23 anni fa": una ex modella mette nei guai Trump ["He assaulted me 23 years ago": a former model gets Trump in trouble]”, in la Repubblica:Dorris si è confidata con il quotidiano inglese The Guardian in un'intervista esclusiva, in cui racconta di essere stata bloccata da Trump quando usciva dal bagno, nel box Vip dove l'affarista immobiliare invitava ospiti per assistere all'Open di tennis.- Dorris confided in the English daily newspaper The Guardian in an exclusive interview, in which she recounts being blocked by Trump when she was exiting the restroom, in the VIP box where the real estate businessman invited guests to watch the tennis Open.
- profiteer
Further reading
- affarista in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana