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Machine politician   /məʃˈin pˌɑlətˈɪʃən/   Listen
Machine politician

noun
1.
A politician who belongs to a small clique that controls a political party for private rather than public ends.  Synonyms: hack, political hack, ward-heeler.





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"Machine politician" Quotes from Famous Books



... Colonel Cooper as a machine politician. Cooper said: "Put my name in your paper again, and I'll kill you." Young Cooper felt in his rage that he must settle the trouble. Did he settle it? The bullet that went through the heart of Carmack went through the heart of his wife, threw a shadow ...
— Wit, Humor, Reason, Rhetoric, Prose, Poetry and Story Woven into Eight Popular Lectures • George W. Bain


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