单词 | political agent |
释义 | > as lemmaspolitical agent political agent n. see sense A. 1b. political agent b. Of a person: belonging to or forming part of a civil administration, esp. as opposed to a military one; spec. designating a government official acting as a political adviser to the ruler of one of the princely states in pre-independence South Asia, as political agent, political officer. Now historical. ΘΚΠ society > authority > rule or government > ruler or governor > a or the government > civil service > [adjective] > relating to Indian civil service political1748 Haileybury1864 1748 J. Henley Informer's Winding Sheet 52 The Reputation of a Political Officer is what all are concern'd..to examine and be free with; not that of a private Individual. 1784 S. Deane Addr. Free & Independant Citizens 4 I arrived in France, in June 1776, and acted as sole Commercial and Political Agent for the United States. 1787 Let. from Gentleman in Bengal (1788) 7 The first political officer the British nation has to boast. 1819 W. Scott Bride of Lammermoor ii, in Tales of my Landlord 3rd Ser. II. 23 So soon as the Marquis's political agent found how the wind sate, he began [etc.]. 1846 H. H. Wilson Hist. Brit. India 1805–35 II. x. 415 Bhawani Sing..was placed upon his cushion of sovereignty by the assistant to the Political Agent in Malwa. 1861 W. H. Russell in Times 29 July The civilian Generals, or ‘political’ chiefs, are obnoxious to the regulars. 1910 Encycl. Brit. I. 659/2 A few years later he set out again for Syria..accredited as a political agent by the French government. 1921 Blackwood's Mag. June 705/2 A few of the political officers remain in the new capacity of Adviser to an Arab Mutassarif. 1977 P. Theroux Consul's File 172 She was the ambassador's secretary and I was a junior political officer. 2003 N.Y. Times (National ed.) 9 Nov. iv. 7/1 I served as the Central Intelligence Agency's quartermaster and political agent to the Afghan resistance against the Soviet occupation from 1986 until the Soviets left in 1989. < as lemmas |
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