"machine politician" meaning in English

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          "ref": "2021, Mark Lawrence Schrad, Smashing the Liquor Machine: A Global History of Prohibition, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 413:",
          "text": "It wasn't that these ward bosses were universally bad men, but the qualities that made for a successful machine politician or boss were the opposite of those that made for an honest public servant.",
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        "A politician who belongs to a small clique that controls a political party for private rather than public ends."
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        "(US) A politician who belongs to a small clique that controls a political party for private rather than public ends."
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        {
          "word": "political machine"
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  "word": "machine politician"
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "related": [
    {
      "word": "political machine"
    }
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        "A politician who belongs to a small clique that controls a political party for private rather than public ends."
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        "(US) A politician who belongs to a small clique that controls a political party for private rather than public ends."
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