Definitions for politician
ˌpɒl ɪˈtɪʃ ənpoliti·cian

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

1. politician(noun)

   a leader engaged in civil administration

2. politician, politico, pol, political leader(noun)

   a person active in party politics

3. politician(noun)

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

Wiktionary(5.00 / 2 votes)Rate this definition:

1. politician(Noun)

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

   Politicians should serve the country's interest.

2. politician(Noun)

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

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

3. politician(Noun)

   A politically active or interested person.

   Only real politicians are interested in this issue.

4. politician(Noun)

   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. Politician(noun)

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

   Etymology: [Cf. F. politicien.]

2. Politician(noun)

   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. Politician(adj)

   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  

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. Muhammadu Buhari:

   It's a question of security. Whether I was a former military officer or a politician through and through, when there is insecurity of this scale in the country, that takes the priority.

2. Lewis Lapham:

   Whether lawyer, politician or executive, the American who knows what's good for his career seeks an institutional rather than an individual identity. He becomes the man from NBC or IBM. The institutional imprint furnishes him with pension, meaning, proofs of existence. A man without a company name is a man without a country.

3. Anuj Somany:

   If there were no politician and woman especially wife, the life would have been bereft of happiness because almost all satire and jokes are being cracked ,directly or indirectly, on them only.

4. Carly Fiorina:

   Ted Cruz is just like any other politician. He says one thing in Manhattan, he says another thing in Iowa.

5. Kedron Bardwell:

   I absolutely think that Carson could win Iowa, it's more likely if the Trump balloon deflates, a lot of those people who are primed to hear stuff that is unconventional will move to another candidate that is not a politician and Carson would be the main beneficiary.

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