Definition of "mandarins" []

• Plural form of mandarin. (noun)

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• "If players at Seoul's foreign exchange market are convinced that the Korean economy will be among the first to recover from the global recession - as Yoon says - and if they have confidence in Korean mandarins 'ability to forestall a liquidity squeeze, they would not have sold down the won to the current level."
• "To do this, he needed the services of the educated class, the so-called mandarins."
• "That's the dilemma mandarins like Jim Baker and the heavyweights on his Commission have to deal with."