political machine

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A local political organization or individual politician that controls a large number of personal votes and can therefore exert political influence, and is therefore often viewed as scandalous. US,historical
    — They had no authority beyond that; for the inspection of meat to be sold in the city and state the whole force in Packingtown consisted of three henchmen of the local political machine!

词形变化

political machines plural
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