marriage-broker

marriage-broker (plural marriage-brokers)

1. Alternative form of marriage broker.
   • 2008 February 6, Andrew Franklin, “Kate Jones: Literary agent with flawless taste”, in The Independent‎^[1], London: Independent News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 5 December 2008:

     But she was much more than just the marriage-broker, bringing the two sides to the table. She was also, as many of her authors have said, "a mentor, a soul-mate", who shaped their writing and transformed their lives.

   • 2008 November 11, Jackie Wullschlager, “Marc Chagall's Russian dolls”, in The Daily Telegraph‎^[2], London: Telegraph Media Group, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 21 April 2009:

     Beautiful auburn-haired Ida, then 28, replaced her mother as dealer-manager, and even began to play marriage-broker. In 1945, when a friend of Ida's met Virginia Haggard, a refined young Englishwoman educated in Paris but fallen on hard times and in a hopeless marriage, Ida introduced Haggard into the Chagall apartment as maid and cook.

   • 2015 July 29, Michael Billington, “Three Days in the Country review – Marber ups the comedy and plays down the psychology”, in The Guardian‎^[3], London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 30 July 2015:

     The chief beneficiary of Marber’s approach is the local quack, who not only acts as a cynical marriage-broker but himself hilariously proposes to a snuff-taking spinster.