Synonyms:
politician
Meaning: a leader engaged in civil administration
Synonyms:
politician, politico, pol, political_leader
Meaning: a person active in party politics
Usage examples
POLITICIAN.
But he was no politician.
His Eminence is the most illustrious politician of times past, of times present, and probably of times to come.
He had a supreme contempt for the blatant self-advertised politician, and he removed himself as far as possible from that type.
Now, after reaching his exalted position, that politician had proclaimed his intention to repay evil with good to Senor Gould--the poor man.
Your eminence is too skillful a politician not to know that, at this moment, the king does not possess a hundred and fifty thousand livres clear in his coffers."
Julia was, in short, an empress and a politician, occupied at the same time about literature, and affairs of state, while she mingled her pleasures freely with both.
'I find Ma'am, you are lately come from abroad,' said Mr Scope, a gentleman self-dubbed a deep politician, and who, in the most sententious manner, uttered the most trivial observations: 'I have no very high notion, I own, of the morals of those foreigners at this period.
Montresor, perhaps repenting himself a little, returned to Lady Henry; and though she received him with great coolness, the circle round her, now augmented by Dr. Meredith, and another politician or two, was reconstituted; and presently, with a conscious effort, visible at least to Bury, she exerted herself to hold it, and succeeded.