machine politician
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machine politician
noun 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.
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title = {machine politician},
howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
year = {2026},
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urldate = {2026-11-06}
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