| 单词 | machine-man |
| 释义 | > as lemmasmachine-man machine-man n. (a) a man who operates a machine (esp. a printing machine); (b) chiefly North American, a member or leader of a political machine; a politician supported by, or skilled in manipulating, his party's machine. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > equipment > machine > [noun] > one who operates machine minder1692 tender1825 machiner1828 steersman1828 machine-man1834 machine-minder1835 operator1847 runner1848 machine-boy1875 machinist1879 machine operator1887 society > authority > rule or government > politics > party politics > [noun] > party machine > types of control of > one who jefe politico1820 caucuser1823 wire-puller1824 machine-man1834 wire-worker1835 cacique1872 boss1882 caucuseer1884 caucusian1886 1834 Chambers's Edinb. Jrnl. 3 390/1 Employed upon each are an editor;..a master printer or foreman; machine men and boys; [etc.]. 1883 Nation (N.Y.) 21 June 520/3 The Republican Machine men are in possession of the regular party organization. 1901 Daily Chron. 10 Sept. 9/7 Pork and Beef Butcher.—Young man wants Situation as machineman. 1948 K. S. Prichard Golden Miles 335 Most machine men worked by contract: truckers and shovellers were on wages. 1969 J. Mander Static Society i. 73 The typical President may be the good bureaucrat, the machine-man who knows how to express the will of the party, while offending none of its rival factions. 1975 P. Newton Sixty Thousand on Hoof 213 It [sc. a woolshed] holds 1800 woolly sheep—barely sufficient for eight fast machine-men. < as lemmas |
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