politician
noun [ C ] uk/ˌpɒl.ɪˈtɪʃ.ən/ us/ˌpɑː.ləˈtɪʃ.ən/
B1 从政者，政治家，政客
a member of a government or law-making organization
a distinguished/disgraced politician 著名／失势的政治家
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- She believed her job as a politician was to represent the views of her party and the people who voted for her.
- Several politicians were accused of dispensing favours to people who voted for them.
- The media focus on politicians' private lives inevitably switches the attention away from the real issues.
- McCarthyism is named after the American politician Joseph McCarthy, who in the 1950s accused many Americans of being Communists.
- He was an effective enough politician, but he had no ambition to become party leader.