politico
noun
po·lit·i·co pə-ˈli-ti-ˌkō 
plural politicos also politicoes
: politician
Example Sentences
a politico who will do anything to win an election
Recent Examples on the Web This powerful South Carolina politico was one of 31 Democratic House members who voted on Jan. 6, 2005, to object to awarding Ohio’s electoral votes to President George W. Bush, despite Mr. Bush winning the Buckeye State by 118,601 votes. 
Karl Rove, WSJ, 7 Sep. 2022 Biden’s predecessor, under investigation on multiple fronts, continues to test the country’s faith in its own Constitution, undermining the rule of law and stoking America’s already sectarian politico-cultural divisions. Eli Stokolsstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 16 Aug. 2022 President Biden wasn’t the only politico to catch the coronavirus in the last week. Karen Kaplan, Los Angeles Times, 26 July 2022 The lifeless bodies of longtime teacher Joyce Sheridan and her Republican politico husband John Patrick Sheridan Jr. were discovered in the bedroom of their home in the early morning hours of Sept. 28, 2014. Stephanie Pagones, Fox News, 1 July 2022 The lifeless bodies of longtime teacher Joyce Sheridan and her Republican politico husband John Patrick Sheridan Jr. were discovered in the bedroom of their Montgomery Township, New Jersey, home in the early morning hours of Sept. 28, 2014. Fox News, 24 June 2022 Bush Senior isn't the only politico to have recognized Molina's. Emma Balter, Chron, 23 June 2022 Rosen and other insiders, who spoke to Variety on condition of anonymity, also point to a swell of politico-cultural changes within China that have been bubbling under for four or five years and which are now manifesting themselves clearly. Patrick Frater, Variety, 19 May 2022 And former national security advisor Bolton isn't the only politico to have schmoozed at Kenny & Ziggy's. Emma Balter, Chron, 18 May 2022 See More
Karl Rove, WSJ, 7 Sep. 2022 Biden’s predecessor, under investigation on multiple fronts, continues to test the country’s faith in its own Constitution, undermining the rule of law and stoking America’s already sectarian politico-cultural divisions. Eli Stokolsstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 16 Aug. 2022 President Biden wasn’t the only politico to catch the coronavirus in the last week. Karen Kaplan, Los Angeles Times, 26 July 2022 The lifeless bodies of longtime teacher Joyce Sheridan and her Republican politico husband John Patrick Sheridan Jr. were discovered in the bedroom of their home in the early morning hours of Sept. 28, 2014. Stephanie Pagones, Fox News, 1 July 2022 The lifeless bodies of longtime teacher Joyce Sheridan and her Republican politico husband John Patrick Sheridan Jr. were discovered in the bedroom of their Montgomery Township, New Jersey, home in the early morning hours of Sept. 28, 2014. Fox News, 24 June 2022 Bush Senior isn't the only politico to have recognized Molina's. Emma Balter, Chron, 23 June 2022 Rosen and other insiders, who spoke to Variety on condition of anonymity, also point to a swell of politico-cultural changes within China that have been bubbling under for four or five years and which are now manifesting themselves clearly. Patrick Frater, Variety, 19 May 2022 And former national security advisor Bolton isn't the only politico to have schmoozed at Kenny & Ziggy's. Emma Balter, Chron, 18 May 2022 See More Word History
Etymology
borrowed from Italian politico and Spanish político, both derivatives of the corresponding adjectives politico and político "political," borrowed from Latin polīticus "of civil government, political" — more at politic
First Known Use
1630, in the meaning defined above