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PANDER

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Someone who procures customers for whores (in England they call a pimp a ponce)

Synonyms:

fancy man; pandar; pander; panderer; pimp; ponce; procurer

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("pander" is a kind of...):

offender; wrongdoer (a person who transgresses moral or civil law)

Domain region:

England (a division of the United Kingdom)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "pander"):

procuress (a woman pimp)

whoremaster; whoremonger (a pimp who procures whores)

Derivation:

pander (arrange for sexual partners for others)

 II. (verb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Arrange for sexual partners for others

Synonyms:

pander; pimp; procure

Classified under:

Verbs of eating and drinking

Hypernyms (to "pander" is one way to...):

cater; ply; provide; supply (give what is desired or needed, especially support, food or sustenance)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s

Derivation:

pander; panderer (someone who procures customers for whores (in England they call a pimp a ponce))

Sense 2

Meaning:

Yield (to); give satisfaction to

Synonyms:

gratify; indulge; pander

Classified under:

Verbs of eating and drinking

Hypernyms (to "pander" is one way to...):

cater; ply; provide; supply (give what is desired or needed, especially support, food or sustenance)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "pander"):

humor; humour (put into a good mood)

spree (engage without restraint in an activity and indulge, as when shopping)

sow one's oats; sow one's wild oats (live promiscuously and self-indulgently)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s somebody
Something ----s something

Derivation:

panderer (a person who serves or caters to the vulgar passions or plans of others (especially in order to make money))

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