Traduttore, traditore: An act of translation is always an act of betrayal. 1828. Robin Swift, …
Parliament's not ready, and he's irritating the compradors besides.
— Babel: Or the Necessity of Violence: An Arcane History of the Oxford Translators' Revolution by R. F. Kuang (Page 103)
new vocabulary: compradors
a person who acts as an agent for foreign organizations engaged in investment, trade, or economic or political exploitation
origin: denoting a local person employed in a European household in southeast Asia or India to make small purchases and keep the household accounts