machine politician
(US) A politician who belongs to a small clique that controls a political party for private rather than public ends.
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(US) A politician who belongs to a small clique that controls a political party for private rather than public ends.
It wasn't that these ward bosses were universally bad men, but the qualities that made for a successful machine politician or boss were the opposite of those that made for an honest public servant.
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