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WARD-HEELER
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A politician who belongs to a small clique that controls a political party for private rather than public ends
Synonyms:
hack; machine politician; political hack; ward-heeler
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("ward-heeler" is a kind of...):
pol; political leader; politician; politico (a person active in party politics)
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