Politburo

Or Po·lit·bu·reau

[pol-it-byoor-oh, poh-lit-, puh-lit-]

noun

1. (often lowercase),  the executive committee and chief policymaking body of a Communist Party.

Politburo

/ ˈpɒlɪtˌbjʊərəʊ /

noun

1. the executive and policy-making committee of a Communist Party

2. the supreme policy-making authority in most Communist countries

politburo

1. A commonly used name for those who made the major governmental decisions in the former Soviet Union. A politburo, in general, is the chief committee of a communist party.

Word History and Origins

Origin of Politburo¹

< Russian politbyuró, shortening of politícheskoe byuró political bureau

Word History and Origins

Origin of Politburo¹

C20: from Russian: contraction of Politicheskoe Buro political bureau

Example Sentences

Gen. He Weidong, the lower-ranking of two vice chairmen on the Communist Party’s top military decision-making body and a member of the 24-man Politburo, has been dismissed from the party and the military for severe disciplinary violations and abuses of power, a spokesman for China’s Defense Ministry said Friday.

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The 68-year-old general, who hasn’t been seen publicly since March, is also the first sitting Politburo member to be investigated since 2017.

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He joined the Central Committee for the first time the day before he was named to the CMC and the Politburo.

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Since then, He has missed official engagements including Politburo meetings and an annual tree-planting event in April that top military officials have attended for the past four decades.

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He was also the only Politburo member whose name didn’t appear on wreaths at the wake of a retired military-commission vice chairman who died in June.

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