machine politician

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machine politician

noun 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.

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@misc{machine_politician_2026,
  title = {machine politician},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/machine%20politician},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}