The Collaborative International Dictionary
Wire-puller
wirepuller \wirepuller\, Wire-puller \Wire"-pull`er\, n. One who pulls the wires, as of a puppet; hence, one who uses secret influence (i.e. pulls wires or strings) for his own ends; an intriguer.
Political wire-pullers and convention packers.
--Lowell.
WordNet
wire-puller
n. one who uses secret influence (i.e. pulls wires or strings) for his own ends
Usage examples of "wire-puller".
The district included under the municipality of Sancerre, distressed at finding itself practically ruled by seven or eight large landowners, the wire-pullers of the elections, tried to shake off the electoral yoke of a creed which had reduced it to a rotten borough.