politiciannoun [ C ]
uk/ˌpɒl.ɪˈtɪʃ.ən/us/ˌpɑː.ləˈtɪʃ.ən/B1 a member of a government or law-making organization:
a distinguished/disgraced politician
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- She believed her job as a politician was to represent the views of her party and the people who voted for her.
- Several politicians were accused of dispensing favours to people who voted for them.
- The media focus on politicians' private lives inevitably switches the attention away from the real issues.
- McCarthyism is named after the American politician Joseph McCarthy, who in the 1950s accused many Americans of being Communists.
- He was an effective enough politician, but he had no ambition to become party leader.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Government ministers & civil servants
- aide
- am
- attorney general
- backbencher
- cabinet
- Chancellor of the Exchequer
- functionary
- government
- Home Secretary
- kitchen cabinet
- mandarin
- marshal
- public servant
- regulator
- secretary
- Secretary of State
- senior statesman
- servant
- the Privy Council
- Whitehall
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