Definitions for politician
ˌpɒl ɪˈtɪʃ ənpoliti·cian

Princeton's WordNet(3.36 / 11 votes)Rate this definition:

1. politiciannoun

   a leader engaged in civil administration

2. politician, politico, pol, political leadernoun

   a person active in party politics

3. politiciannoun

   a schemer who tries to gain advantage in an organization in sly or underhanded ways

Wiktionary(5.00 / 2 votes)Rate this definition:

1. politiciannoun

   One engaged in politics, especially an elected or appointed government official.

   Politicians should serve the country's interest.

2. politiciannoun

   Specifically, one who regards elected political office as a career.

   Unlike the other candidates, I'm not a politician.

3. politiciannoun

   A politically active or interested person.

   Only real politicians are interested in this issue.

4. politiciannoun

   A sly or ingratiating person.

   There is a politician in every office.

Wikipedia(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. Politician

   A politician is a person active in party politics, or a person holding or seeking office in government. Politicians propose, support and create laws or policies that govern the land and, by extension, its people. Broadly speaking, a "politician" can be anyone who seeks to achieve political power in any bureaucratic institution.

Webster Dictionary(3.00 / 4 votes)Rate this definition:

1. Politiciannoun

   one versed or experienced in the science of government; one devoted to politics; a statesman

   Etymology: [Cf. F. politicien.]

2. Politiciannoun

   one primarily devoted to his own advancement in public office, or to the success of a political party; -- used in a depreciatory sense; one addicted or attached to politics as managed by parties (see Politics, 2); a schemer; an intriguer; as, a mere politician

   Etymology: [Cf. F. politicien.]

3. Politicianadjective

   cunning; using artifice; politic; artful

   Etymology: [Cf. F. politicien.]

Freebase(2.67 / 3 votes)Rate this definition:

1. Politician

   A politician, political leader, or political figure is a person who is involved in influencing public policy and decision making. This includes people who hold decision-making positions in government, and people who seek those positions, whether by means of election, inheritance, coup d'état, appointment, electoral fraud, conquest, divine right, or other means. Politics is not limited to governance through public office. Political offices may also be held in corporations, and other entities that are governed by self-defined political processes or can be known as freedom fighters.

Editors Contribution(5.00 / 2 votes)Rate this definition:

1. politician

   A person with the specific and accurate ability, empathy, experience, knowledge, skills, passion, ethics, morality, sense of fairness, justness and trust with an awareness and understanding we are working together united for the collective optimum health, human rights and shared prosperity of all people in the country or nation that we serve and are focused positively on cocreating optimum health, human rights, right to life, shared prosperity for all, stability, unity government, solidarity, cohesion, animal rights, right to housing, right to education, right to parent, right to childcare, right to a standard of living, right to internet access, economic stability, financial stability, civil rights, equal rights, equal opportunities, employment rights, childrens rights, sustainable development, sustainable development goals, united partnership, multi-party working, community empowerment systems, equal distribution of income, wealth, fairness and justness across society, the country, europe and the world and contribute to the cocreation of global and national peace agreements, peace treaties, the universes truth and a fair, just and transparent system of checks and balances.

   Politicians listen to their electorate and action what is accurate, true, just, fair, ethical and moral in order of priority.

   Submitted by MaryC on December 31, 2019  

Matched Categories

1. • Leader
   • Schemer

British National Corpus

1. Nouns Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'politician' in Nouns Frequency: #1037

How to pronounce politician?

1. Alex

   US English

   Daniel

   British

   Karen

   Australian

   Veena

   Indian

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of politician in Chaldean Numerology is: 7

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of politician in Pythagorean Numerology is: 9

Examples of politician in a Sentence

1. Russian President Vladimir Putin:

   There is no uniform, global model for democracy, what you mean by democracy differs from county to country. This conception is different in India and in the USA and in Russia or Europe. In the USA, for example, twice in history a politician became President because he had more electoral votes, regardless of the fact that his competitor had more votes from the citizens.

2. Max Percy:

   The priest persuades a humble people to endure their hard lot, a politician urges them to rebel against it, and a scientist thinks of a method that does away with the hard lot altogether.

3. Adrian Lee:

   If you removed the politician and made it just a bitcoin machine, then maybe it would work but you can't do that.

4. Javier Valdez:

   The effect of the violence is a kind of self-censorship, you have to know the rules – how the gangs or police or a local politician here or there will respond to a certain story – but those rules can change quickly.

5. Sourabh Gupta:

   China and Germany both have current account surpluses, and an intensive economic relationship. To that extent, they will find common cause at the G-20 against Trump. other countries like Japan have gone out of their way to keep a healthy relationship with Trump. But Merkel hasn’t done that. She has been kind of snooty and seems to be waiting for Trump to grow up and act like a mainstream politician.

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