puppeteer

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Noun

puppeteer (plural puppeteers)

1. A person who uses a puppet.
2. (figurative) Someone who is manipulative and thus able to get people to do what they want or events to develop in the way they want, respectively, in a puppet-like manner.

Translations

• French: marionnettiste
• German: Puppenspieler, Puppenspielerin
• Italian: burattinaio, burattinaia, marionettista, puparo
• Portuguese: marionetista, fantocheiro
• Russian: куклово́д
• Spanish: titiritero, muñequero, marionetista

Translations

• French: manipulateur
• Italian: manipolatore, burattinaio

Verb

puppeteer (puppeteers, present participle puppeteering; past and past participle puppeteered)

1. To control a person, event, or organisation.

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