0 someone who is skilled at arranging for things to happen, especially dishonestly --
1 someone who is skilled at arranging for things to happen, sometimes in a way that is dishonest: --
They chose him because of his reputation as a fixer and an expert at handling difficult situations.
A small crook to-day goes to a "fixer" and is financed for his operation.
What has arisen, inevitably, since crime is now such big business, is the agent, the entrepreneur, the middleman, the "fixer".
It is an unwritten law that the shop steward never praises the rate fixer, for if he does, the employer will quickly remove him.
The mayor will have to be a facilitator, a fixer, who forges ahead by building partnerships.
But that "fixer" gives him not only the money but protection all the way along the line.
Are we going to have price fixers all round the country?
The factory employs 678 men and there are 5 rate fixers engaged on the general work of fixing rates for the whole factory.
More unkindly, it could be described as a fix by political fixers.
