Word.ws English Dictionary

machine politicians

machine politicians is the plural of machine politician.

Meaning of machine politician

Noun

machine politician (plural machine politicians)

  1. (US) 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

Questions about machine politicians

What is machine politicians the plural of?
Machine politicians is the plural of machine politician.

Words near machine politicians in the dictionary

  1. machine operator
  2. machine operators
  3. machine pistol
  4. machine pistols
  5. machine politician
  6. machine politicians
  7. machine politics
  8. machine room
  9. machine rooms
  10. machine screw
  11. machine screws

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: machine politicians (page history and authors); machine politician (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “machine politicians.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/machine_politicians. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.