Politics, political, politician or policy?
Politics means the activities of the government or people who try to influence the way a country is governed. We use a singular verb with it: …

politician | American Dictionary

politician
noun[ C ]
us/ˌpɑl·əˈtɪʃ·ən/
politics & government
a person who is active in politics, esp. as a job

Examples of politician

politician
Opening up the policy process to public, parties and politicians should be done with due reticence.
The split removed an incentive to behave moderately as there were no longer national politicians but only regional ones.
The politicians may then select from this menu the policies they shall support.
In the early twentieth century these nationalist politicians tried to recruit the support of industrial workers to the swadeshi cause.
The general issue is thus, how much flexibility you want for your elected politicians representing the voting population at any given point in time.
In settings where responsibility for policy making is most clear, incumbent politicians are held accountable for macroeconomic performances.
A truce was called in this particular match in the long-running series of press versus politician 'games'.
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.
In transitions that follow the decompressive mode and are dominated by outsiders, politicians will prefer medium-strength parties.
In transitions that follow the decompressive mode and are dominated by insiders, politicians will prefer weak parties.
At the same time as landed income went up, parliament enacted legislation to limit patronage sources available to 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.
Moreover, proposals that were technically elegant could run up against the instincts of the politicians.
His argument does, however, differ from ours in his claim that individual citizens can easily be manipulated by professional politicians.
The papers reviewed have focused on indirect communication - from voters to elected politicians through voting and from politicians to voters through campaign fund-raising.
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Collocations withpolitician

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These are words often used in combination with politician.

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ambitious politician
I said that a young, ambitiouspolitician has his opportunities to use the normal processes of democracy which we have all enjoyed ourselves.
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