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
- pseudomorphically
- pseudomorphine
- pseudomorphism
- pseudomorphose
- pseudomorphosing
- pseudomorphosis
- pseudomorphous
- pseudomorphously
- pseudomorula
- pseudomucin
- pseudomucinous
- pseudomultilocular
- pseudomycorrhiza
- pseudomycorrhizal
- pseudonavicella
- Pseudoneuroptera
- pseudoneurotic
- pseudonym
- pseudonymic
- pseudonymity
- pseudonymous
- pseudonymously
- pseudo-object
- pseudo-operation
- pseudo-operculum