MACHINE POLITICIAN

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

A politician who belongs to a small clique that controls a political party for private rather than public ends

Synonyms:

hack; machine politician; political hack; ward-heeler

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("machine politician" is a kind of...):

pol; political leader; politician; politico (a person active in party politics)

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