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Meanings of political hack in inglés

A politician who belongs to a small clique that controls a political party for private rather than public ends.

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        Examples for "hack"
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        Kim Zetter explained everything we know so far aboutUkraine's power plant hack.
        Wired
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        That system was not involved in the data hack, the company said.
        Reuters
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        However, Maduro insists Venezuela's system is entirely trustworthy and impossible to hack.
        Reuters
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        He said the hack demonstrated Australia's need to increase its digital security.
        Radio NZ
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        We also have a way of learning while having fun: hack days.
        The Guardian
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        He does not fit the blue-collar stereotype of a Chicago machine politician.
        The Guardian
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        Still, Pellegrini played the good soldier, knowing that in Baltimore a machine politician's word is gold.
        Homicide: a year on the killing streets
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        One such endeavor entailed throwing their considerable political clout behind a Democratic machine politician's bid for mayor of Chicago.
        The outfit: the role of chicago's underworld in the shaping of m...
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        The consummate machine politician.
        The Guardian
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        He's just the ordinary machine politician, with no more party feeling than-than-" Ismiled-"thananyother man behind the scenes."
        The Plum Tree
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        A ward-heeler cadging votes for a Milwaukee alderman never wheedled more gingerly.
        The Ivory Trail
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        It is bad to elevate the mind of the average ward-heeler?
        The Fourth "R"
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        And Blount knew the disappearance was real, because the ward-heeler's own henchmen were searching for him.
        The Honorable Senator Sage-Brush
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        A very good sample was the notorious Yankee Sullivan, an ex-prize-fighter, ward-heeler, ballot-box stuffer, and shoulder-striker.
        The Forty-Niners: A Chronicle of the California Trail and El Dor...
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        If you tried to vote some ward-heeler would challenge you and you'd like as not be hauled off to the lock-up.
        Bunker Bean
        Usage of political hack in inglés
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        With no archaeological training, he was little more than a political hack.
        The last testament
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        Parker asked for federal assistance from U.S. Attorney General Harry Daugherty, a political hack.
        Rising tide: the great mississippi flood of 1927 and how it chan...
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        The chairman might be a political hack, but he was not without his skills.
        Wild Cards IV: Aces Abroad
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        He was a political hack, and then he became governor.
        News.com.au
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        Donald Trump is a dragon slayer and Joe Biden is the oldest political hack on the planet.
        News.com.au
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        He blames it on a " political hack job".
        The Guardian
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        Ludlow is a discredited political hack.
        The Henchman
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        We're not going to let you have the rally.' And he's calling, this governor who was a political hack.
        News.com.au
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        Observers suffered whiplash watching as the FBI director evolved from upstanding and forthright public servant to political hack seemingly overnight.
        The Guardian
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        From the point of view of the political hack, Judge Lindsey made a most distressing use of the red herring.
        A Preface to Politics
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        Townsend, to his credit, was not a political hack, but had actually scaled the ranks on hard work, merit, and performance.
        The President's Assassin
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        Review: Greenspan as saint, sinner, political hack An era of cheap money makes it easy to oversimplify the former Fed chairman's record.
        Reuters
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        I felt like a cheap political hack accepting the nomination for an important office that I was perfectly certain I couldn't fill acceptably.
        White Ashes
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        You think some junior political hack is worth more than a prime minister? He seemed impatient, as if this were all a tedious game.
        Dante's numbers
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        Jones suggests this book is for ordinary people intrigued by Cameron, not political hacks.
        The Guardian
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        But among political hacks a rumour was going around.
        The Guardian
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