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POLITICAL MACHINE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does political machine mean?
• POLITICAL MACHINE (noun)
The noun POLITICAL MACHINE has 1 sense:
1. a group that controls the activities of a political party
Familiarity information: POLITICAL MACHINE used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A group that controls the activities of a political party
Classified under:
Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects
Synonyms:
machine; political machine
Context example:
he was endorsed by the Democratic machine
Hypernyms ("political machine" is a kind of...):
organisation; organization (a group of people who work together)
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