philanthropoid
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From philanthropy + -oid.
Noun
[edit]philanthropoid (plural philanthropoids)
- (informal) An administrative employee at a philanthropic organisation.
- 1967, Warren Weaver, George Wells Beadle, U.S. philanthropic foundations:
- The philanthropoid needs intelligence, imagination, flexibility, and a large streak of unselfishness.
- 1983, Rael Jean Isaac, Erich Isaac, The coercive utopians: social deception by America's power players, page 206:
- I'm not playing the role of the hard-headed tycoon who thinks all philanthropoids are Socialists and all university professors are Communists.