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politiko [pu.li.ti.ku.] : politician (n.)

Derivatives of politiko


Glosses:
politician
n. (person)1. politiciana leader engaged in civil administration.
~ leadera person who rules or guides or inspires others.
~ governorthe head of a state government.
~ legislatorsomeone who makes or enacts laws.
~ city manager, mayorthe head of a city government.
n. (person)2. pol, political leader, politician, politicoa person active in party politics.
~ leadera person who rules or guides or inspires others.
~ campaigner, candidate, nomineea politician who is running for public office.
~ communista member of the communist party.
~ demagog, demagogue, rabble-rousera political leader who seeks support by appealing to popular passions and prejudices.
~ democrata member of the Democratic Party.
~ federalista member of a former political party in the United States that favored a strong centralized federal government.
~ labouritea member of the British Labour Party.
~ machine politician, political hack, ward-heeler, hacka politician who belongs to a small clique that controls a political party for private rather than public ends.
~ mugwumpsomeone who bolted from the Republican Party during the U.S. presidential election of 1884.
~ noncandidatesomeone who has announced they are not a candidate; especially a politician who has announced that he or she is not a candidate for some political office.
~ party boss, political boss, bossa leader in a political party who controls votes and dictates appointments.; "party bosses have a reputation for corruption"
~ party liner, party mana member of a political party who follows strictly the party line.
~ republicana member of the Republican Party.
~ sachema political leader (especially of Tammany Hall).
~ socialista political advocate of socialism.
~ standard-beareran outstanding leader of a political movement.
~ national leader, solon, statesmana man who is a respected leader in national or international affairs.
~ technocratan advocate of technocracy.
~ whiga member of the Whig Party that existed in the United States before the American Civil War.
~ astor, nancy witcher astor, viscountess astorBritish politician (born in the United States) who was the first woman to sit in the British House of Commons (1879-1964).
~ alben barkley, alben william barkley, barkleyUnited States politician and lawyer; vice president of the United States (1877-1956).
~ 1st baron beaverbrook, beaverbrook, william maxwell aitkenBritish newspaper publisher and politician (born in Canada); confidant of Winston Churchill (1879-1964).
~ bradley, thomas bradley, tom bradleyUnited States politician who was elected the first black mayor of Los Angeles (1917-1998).
~ boy orator of the platte, bryan, great commoner, william jennings bryanUnited States lawyer and politician who advocated free silver and prosecuted John Scopes (1925) for teaching evolution in a Tennessee high school (1860-1925).
~ aaron burr, burrUnited States politician who served as vice president under Jefferson; he mortally wounded his political rival Alexander Hamilton in a duel and fled south (1756-1836).
~ salmon p. chase, salmon portland chase, chaseUnited States politician and jurist who served as chief justice of the United States Supreme Court (1808-1873).
~ charles joseph clark, joe clark, clarkCanadian politician who served as prime minister (1939-).
~ henry clay, the great compromiser, clayUnited States politician responsible for the Missouri Compromise between free and slave states (1777-1852).
~ dewitt clinton, clintonUnited States politician who as governor of New York supported the project to build the Erie Canal (1769-1828).
~ crockett, david crockett, davy crockettUnited States frontiersman and Tennessee politician who died at the siege of the Alamo (1786-1836).
~ douglas, little giant, stephen a. douglas, stephen arnold douglasUnited States politician who proposed that individual territories be allowed to decide whether they would have slavery; he engaged in a famous series of debates with Abraham Lincoln (1813-1861).
~ sam houston, samuel houston, houstonUnited States politician and military leader who fought to gain independence for Texas from Mexico and to make it a part of the United States (1793-1863).
~ jesse jackson, jesse louis jackson, jacksonUnited States civil rights leader who led a national campaign against racial discrimination and ran for presidential nomination (born in 1941).
~ glenda jackson, jacksonEnglish film actress who later became a member of British Parliament (born in 1936).
~ andre maginot, maginotFrench politician who proposed the Maginot Line (1877-1932).
~ joseph mccarthy, joseph raymond mccarthy, mccarthyUnited States politician who unscrupulously accused many citizens of being Communists (1908-1957).
~ daniel patrick moynihan, moynihanUnited States politician and educator (1927-2003).
~ mullah mohammed omar, mullah omarreclusive Afghanistani politician and leader of the Taliban who imposed a strict interpretation of shariah law on Afghanistan (born in 1960).
~ peel, robert peel, sir robert peelBritish politician (1788-1850).
~ grigori aleksandrovich potemkin, grigori potemkin, grigori potyokin, potemkin, potyokina Russian officer and politician who was a favorite of Catherine II and in 1762 helped her to seize power; when she visited the Crimea in 1787 he gave the order for sham villages to be built (1739-1791).
~ jeannette rankin, rankinleader in the women's suffrage movement in Montana; the first woman to serve in the United States House of Representatives (1880-1973).
~ nellie ross, nellie tayloe ross, rossa politician in Wyoming who was the first woman governor in the United States (1876-1977).
~ seward, william henry sewardUnited States politician who as Secretary of State in 1867 arranged for the purchase of Alaska from Russia (known at the time as Seward's Folly) (1801-1872).
~ daniel webster, websterUnited States politician and orator (1782-1817).
n. (person)3. politiciana schemer who tries to gain advantage in an organization in sly or underhanded ways.
~ plotter, schemera planner who draws up a personal scheme of action.