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marriage broker
noun as in go-between
Example Sentences
After pleading with her husband, Sahar was allowed to visit her parents once, under supervision of the marriage broker – her cousin’s husband.
She told me that her cousin’s husband worked as a marriage broker and arranged her marriage with a man in Haryana.
Polatkin nodded and turned to the examination of a pile of monthly statements by way of dismissing the marriage broker.
So my father, at the age of sixteen and a half, lent a willing ear to the cooing voice of the marriage broker.
At the same time the marriage broker proposed another match; and my father's poor cousins bristled with importance once more.
His name was Steiner, and he set himself up in business as an international marriage broker.
Perhaps this scheming marriage-broker had shed her worldly scales under the stress of emotion.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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