machine politician
machine politician noun: a politician who belongs to a small clique that controls a political party for private rather than public ends.
Noun
machine politician (plural machine politicians)
- A politician who belongs to a small clique that controls a political party for private rather than public ends.
- It wasn't that these ward bosses were universally bad men, but the qualities that made for a successful machine politician or boss were the opposite of those that made for an honest public servant.2021, Mark Lawrence Schrad, Smashing the Liquor Machine: A Global History of Prohibition, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 413
machine politician meaning in Kannada
machine politician in Kannada
- ಯಂತ್ರ ರಾಜಕಾರಣಿ
Forms of machine politician
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Questions about machine politician
- What does machine politician mean?
- Machine politician means a politician who belongs to a small clique that controls a political party for private rather than public ends.
- What is machine politician in Kannada?
- Machine politician in Kannada is ಯಂತ್ರ ರಾಜಕಾರಣಿ. See Machine politician meaning in Kannada.
- What part of speech is machine politician?
- Machine politician is a noun.
- What is the plural of machine politician?
- The plural of machine politician is machine politicians.
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