placeman
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placemen
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Mr Sharif has installed a loyal placeman, Shahid Khaqan Abbasi, previously the minister for natural resources, as interim prime minister.
From Economist ● Aug. 3, 2017
Meanwhile, far from being a Whelan placeman, Cryer was another of his targets.
From The Guardian ● Mar. 21, 2010
The placeman had misquoted Terence, and the alderman had corrected him; whereupon the ready placeman thanked the worthy alderman for teaching him Latin, and volunteered in exchange to teach the alderman English.
From Res Judicat? Papers and Essays by Augustine Birrell
The new placeman, having achieved office, subsides into a long silence.
From Lord Chatham His Early Life and Connections by Archibald Phillip Primrose Rosebery
It actually lifts the lucky elf, Thus acted upon, above himself;— He jumps to a state of clairvoyance, And is placeman, statesman, all, at once!
From The Complete Poems of Sir Thomas Moore Collected by Himself with Explanatory Notes by William Michael Rossetti
But while the administrators controlled Polly Peck's assets on paper and in law, in Northern Cyprus and Turkey those properties and businesses remained firmly in the hands of the tycoon's placemen.
From The Guardian ● Aug. 26, 2012
It separated the administration from the legislature by excluding placemen from the House of Commons; and it prohibited the king from visiting his foreign dominions without leave.
From Lectures on Modern history by John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton, Baron Acton
The eighteenth century was the golden age of Whig families, at least till George III. became king, and the house of Russell continued to provide the country with a succession of dignified placemen.
From The Galaxy Vol. XXIII?March, 1877.?No. 3 by Various
His object was to emancipate parliament from the control of placemen and pensioners and to break the power of the borough-owners by the extension of the franchise.
From The New Irish Constitution by J. H. Morgan
The imported nobility had dwindled down to the condition of placemen or traders.
From The Rise of Canada, from Barbarism to Wealth and Civilisation Volume 1 by Charles Roger
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