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Definition of Machine politician

1. Noun. A politician who belongs to a small clique that controls a political party for private rather than public ends.

Definition of Machine politician

1. Noun. (American English) a politician who belongs to a small clique that controls a political party for private rather than public ends ¹

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Lexicographical Neighbors of Machine Politician

Literary usage of Machine politician

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine (1887)
"The terms machine and machine politician are now undoubtedly used ordinarily in a reproachful sense; but it does not at all follow that this sense is always ..."

2. The Arena by Harry Houdini Collection (Library of Congress) (1906)
"But when the test came Senator Lodge chose to become a machine politician who should depend upon the privileged interests, as do all the bosses of the ..."

3. American Ideals, and Other Essays, Social and Political by Theodore Roosevelt (1897)
"The terms machine and machine politician are now undoubtedly used ordinarily in a reproachful sense ; but it does not at all follow that this sense is ..."

4. Thought and Things: A Study of the Development and Meaning of Thought, Or by James Mark Baldwin (1908)
"... class " machine-politicians," he becomes an illustrative case of the full identical universal meaning ; that is, he is a " corrupt machine politician. ..."

5. Essays on Practical Politics by Theodore Roosevelt (1888)
"The terms machine and machine politician arc now undoubtedly used ordinarily in a reproachful sense; but it does not at all follow that this sense is always ..."

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