Other forms: fixers
A fixer is somebody who quietly arranges difficult things. A political fixer, hire a fixer, the party's fixer.
In journalism a fixer is the local who arranges access, interpreting and safety for a visiting reporter, and the work is dangerous and rarely credited. In politics the word implies useful methods that will not be examined. In photography, fixer is the chemical that makes an image permanent.
1nounfixerSomebody who quietly arranges difficult things.
“The senator relied on a fixer who could make any awkward problem quietly disappear.”
2nounchemicalThe chemical that makes a photographic image permanent.
“In the darkroom, the photo went from the developer into the fixer.”
fixer is an arranger.
Proto-Indo-European
*dʰeygʷ- — to jab; stick; set
Latin
fīxus — immovable; steady; stable; fixed
Old French
*fixer
Middle English
fixen
English
fix
English, today
fixer
Built from
From fix + -er. fix comes from Middle English fixen, borrowed from Old French fixer (attested only as ficher, fichier; > English fitch), from fix (“fastened; fixed”), from Latin fīxus (“immovable; steady; stable; fixed”), from fīgō (“to drive in; stick; fasten”), from Proto-Indo-European dʰeygʷ- (“to jab; stick; set”). Related to dig.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA