philanthropoid

English

Etymology

From philanthropy +‎ -oid.

Noun

philanthropoid (plural philanthropoids)

1. (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.