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pollutician

pollutician noun: a politician who supports policies and initiatives that result in environmental damage.

Noun

pollutician (plural polluticians)

  1. (derogatory) A politician who supports policies and initiatives that result in environmental damage.
    • Here the polluticians and the developers carved up the cake with gusto.2001, Peter Casey, 30 Days in Sydney: A Wildly Distorted Account, Bloomsbury, published 2008, →ISBN, page 211
  2. (derogatory, sometimes) A politician who supports policies and initiatives designed to reduce environmental pollution.
    • Too many owners of factory chimneys have already capitulated to the negative attitude of the polluticians and have converted to smokeless fuels.1971, Electroplating and Metal Finishing, volume 24
  3. (derogatory) A corrupt politician
    • Indeed the Rastafarian brethren contend that the '"polluticians" [politicians] are selling us out' for their own self-serving interests.2005, Jalani A. Niaah, “Absent Father(s), Garvey's Scattered Children and the Back to Africa Movement”, in Elísio Salvado Macamo, editor, Negotiating Modernity: Africa's Ambivalent Experience...

Forms of pollutician

pluralpolluticians

Origin of pollutician

Blend of pollution + politician.

Questions about pollutician

What does pollutician mean?
Pollutician means a politician who supports policies and initiatives that result in environmental damage.
What part of speech is pollutician?
Pollutician is a noun.
What is the plural of pollutician?
The plural of pollutician is polluticians.

Words near pollutician in the dictionary

  1. polluter pays principles
  2. polluters
  3. pollutes
  4. pollutest
  5. polluteth
  6. pollutician
  7. polluticians
  8. polluting
  9. pollutingly
  10. pollution
  11. pollution permit system

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