politician
/pɒlɪˈtɪʃ(ə)n
/noun
1A person who is professionally involved in politics, especially as a holder of an elected office: a veteran communist politician a local politician...
- We tend to elect politicians to change things, and then kick them when they do.
- Do the politicians we elect have the right to force us to live more healthily?
- They will come back with a vengeance if the politicians they have elected let them down.
Synonyms
legislator, Member of Parliament, MP, representative, minister, statesman, stateswoman, political leader, lawmaker, public servant, elected official, office-bearer;
in the US senator, congressman, congresswoman, assemblyman, assemblywoman
informal politico
North American informal pol
1.1chiefly US A person who acts in a manipulative and devious way, typically to gain advancement within an organization.
Rhymes
- colour section
- colour sense
- colour-sensitive
- colour sensitiveness
- colour sensitivity
- colour-sensitized
- colour sensitizer
- colour separation
- colour sergeant
- colour service
- colour shop
- colour slide
- colour snap
- colour solid
- colour space
- colour suite
- colour supplement
- colour symmetry
- colour television
- colour temperature
- colour therapist
- colour therapy
- colour tone
- colour top
- colour transparency