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What (who) is kingmaker - definition
PERSON OR GROUP THAT HAS GREAT INFLUENCE IN A ROYAL OR POLITICAL SUCCESSION
King Maker; King maker; King makers; Kingmakers
kingmaker
¦ noun a person who brings leaders to power through the exercise of political influence.
Origin
used orig. with ref. to the Earl of Warwick (1428-71), known as Warwick the Kingmaker.
Kingmaker
A kingmaker is a person or group that has great influence on a royal or political succession, without themselves being a viable candidate. Kingmakers may use political, monetary, religious, and military means to influence the succession.
Kingmaker (comics)
NAME OF THREE MARVEL COMICS SUPERVILLAINS
The Kingmaker (comics); Kingmaker (Wallace); Kingmaker (Pryor Cashman)
The Kingmaker is the name of three fictional supervillains appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics.
Wikipedia
Kingmaker
A kingmaker is a person or group that has great influence on a royal or political succession, without themselves being a viable candidate. Kingmakers may use political, monetary, religious, and military means to influence the succession. Originally, the term applied to the activities of Richard Neville, 16th Earl of Warwick—"Warwick the Kingmaker"—during the Wars of the Roses (1455–1487) in England.
Examples of use of kingmaker
1. The next Lib Dem leader will not be king, but he could be kingmaker.
2. By the mid–1''0s Berezovsky had established himself as media magnate, business leader and kingmaker.
3. The elections of 1'23 positioned the Liberal leader, Herbert Henry Asquith, as kingmaker.
4. Though Singh is Prime Minister, it is Sonia, 60, who is the kingmaker.
5. For "Dacre‘s golden boys" he is all this and, more important, the kingmaker.