0 sb who works in politics -- politiker [ masculine ]
a far-right politician en ytre høyrepolitiker
1 a person whose job is politics; a member of parliament -- politiker
a Labour politician.
His argument does, however, differ from ours in his claim that individual citizens can easily be manipulated by professional politicians.
Moreover, proposals that were technically elegant could run up against the instincts of the politicians.
It would be someone else's responsibility (the politician or the civil servant) to develop the policy concerned and to make it ready for implementation.
At the same time as landed income went up, parliament enacted legislation to limit patronage sources available to politicians.
In transitions that follow the decompressive mode and are dominated by insiders, politicians will prefer weak parties.
In transitions that follow the decompressive mode and are dominated by outsiders, politicians will prefer medium-strength parties.
As once essentially residential communities matured, politicians sought to raise their tax revenues whilst retaining small-scale, almost village life, within an increasingly urbanized milieu.
A truce was called in this particular match in the long-running series of press versus politician 'games'.
