单词 | machine politician |
释义 | > as lemmasmachine politician machine politician n. ΘΚΠ society > authority > rule or government > politics > politician > [noun] politic1559 politian1584 politician1589 politico1630 politiconea1734 civilist1736 political1833 machine politician1876 pol1907 frock1919 polly1932 1876 Modesto (Calif.) Herald 20 July 1/5 The fastidious malcontents..threatened..to vote the Democratic ticket in case the machine politicians captured the Cincinnati Convention. 1909 Westm. Gaz. 2 Nov. 2/1 A machine politician of the most finished type, who has amassed a considerable fortune by perpetual office-holding. 1991 Wilson Q. Spring 94/1 ‘Panic peddlers’ and machine politicians fostered residential segregation and overcrowding in order to stabilize their ethnically balkanized city. < as lemmas |
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